B4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 11,1981
Bill
help
WASHINGTON,D.C -Terming
the young, beginning farmer “an
endangered species”
Congressmen Berkley Bedell
Thursday introduced legislation
designed to assist the young far
mers in acquiring the necessary
resources to purchase their own
farms.
Bedell’s bill the Begmnmg
Farmers Assistance Act of 1981,
authorizes the Secretary of
Agriculture, following certain
guidelines, to provide Federal
Loan guarantees in support of
direct loans made by the states
under state programs to assist
farmers seeking to purchase a
family farm.
According to Bedell, this bill is
intended “to encourage the states
to establish their own programs to
provide loans or other incentives to
beginning fanners who wish to
purchase their own farms/’
In addition, the Bedell bill is
structured to dovetail and sup
plement, rather than duplicate,
beginning farmer assistance
programs in states, like lowa,
which already have such
legislation. The bill will also
augment efforts of the Farmers
Home Administration to provide
loans to beginning farmers.
Bedell, in his statement ac
companying the introduction of the
legislation, quoted U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture statistics
which show that “69.5 percent of
all farmland is owned by farmers
age 50 or older, farmers who will
be retiring throughout the 1980’s.
Only 5.9 percent of the total far-
PSU livestock show
to run April 25
UNIVERSITY PARK - Show
Day for the Little International
Livestock Exposition at the Penn
State Beef and Sheep Center is
April 25.
Fitting and showing contests will
start at 8 a.m. with beef cattle and
sheep, followed by hogs and hor
ses. The Penn State Block and
Bridle Club will host the event.
Several weeks before Show Day
students “draw lots” for their
animals and fit and train them.
Contestants compete for awards. A
grand champion showman is
chosen and prizes are awarded at
the Little “I” banquet that
evening.
Other honors that will be given
are the Outstanding Alumnus, and
the Glen R. Kean award.
Admission to the show is free and
the public is cordially invited to
attend the day’s activities.
Students in animal production,
with knowledge of showing the
respective species, are selected as
superintendents to help students
with their animals. This year’s
superintendents are Dale Rains of
Mercer for beef; Linda Ebaugh of
Delta for sheep; Lee Johnson of
New Alexandria for swine; and
Rich Denniston of Pittsburgh for
horses.
Judges for the contest are
Chester Hughes of Portage for beef
cattle; Robert Zimmerman of New
Concorde, Ohio for sheep; Keith
Bard of Lewistown for swine; and
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introduced to
young farmers
inland acreage is owned by far
mers age 35 and under ”
“If present trends continue,”
said Congressman Bedell, a
member of the House Agriculture
Committee, “as older farmers
retire, their land will be sold
primarily to existing farmland
owners who will consolidate their
holdings, thus increasing average
farm size and limiting the number
of total farms and farmers ”
Citing a survey taken in 15 key
agricultural counties in his Nor
thwest lowa congressional district,
Bedell continued, “Farmers who
own and operate their land were
found to be a minority of land
owners in every county surveyed.
“Anywhere from just 23 to up to
44 percent of the farmers were
found to be actual owner
operators. Also, from 58 to 77
percent of the farmland in these
counties was found to be owned by
absentee landlords.”
“Clearly, if beginning young
farmers do not have the resources
to acquire a farm during the
critical next several years when
many older farmers will be leaving
the land, our farming system will
become a system dominated by
giant farms controlled by absentee
landlords who may have less and
less regard for the welfare of our
rural communities and our rural
way of life,” said the lawmaker.
“We must take steps to assure
that we seize upon this impending
transition period in farmland
ownership as an opportunity to
reaffirm our support for family
farms and family farmers,” Bedell
said.
Nancy Kohler of McKean for
horses.
The Show manager is Jeff
Bylerly of Milton, a senior in
animal production. Assisting him
is Robert Bortz of Apollo, a junior
in animal production.
Harold Harpster of the Depart
ment of Dairy and Alumni Science
is faculty advisor for the Block and
Bridle Club.
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