D6— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 15,1981
Hearings cite preservation and parity
HARRISBURG Farmland
preservation, milk parity and an
even greater increase m the farm
inheritance tax exemption were
among the concerns spelled out to
U.S Sen. Arlen Specter in hearings
on farm problems in Harrisburg on
Monday.
Specter chaired the hearings
Monday morning as a member of
the Agriculture Subcommittee and
its parent Senate Appropriations
Committee.
Two Lancaster Countians spoke
out in favor of the federal gover
nment and the Reagan ad
ministration taking a firm policy
stand m favor of farmland
preservation
Pro-preservation statements
were given by Amos H Funk, of
Millersville, noted preservation
leader; and Jesse Wood, of Not
tingham, chairman of the
Agriculture Committee of the
Pennsylvania State Grange
“I believe it is important that
Reagan enunciate a national policy
and go on record that it’s vital to
protect our agricultural land,”
Funk said
Funk went on to commend
Congress for directing the National
Agricultural Land Study. He
recommended that the federal
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input on land use throughout the
country to help guarantee the
preservation of productive far
mland.
“There is no best effective
method for farmland preservation
that will work in all parts of the
country,” Funk continued.
“But efforts should be con
centrated on the local level with
farmers having a direct par
ticipation in their program.”
Funk also favored financial
incentive for long-term guarantees
by farmers to retain land in
productive agriculture.
In addition to farmland
preservation, Wood testified on
behalf of State Grange interest in
adequate money for soil and water
conservation practices in any
agricultural funding for
Agriculture Conservation
Programs
Grange policy favors $3OO
million in federal funding for AGP
in the upcoming year.
In addition to speaking out for
continuation of the REA program,
Paul Tetherow, assistant general
manager of the Pennsylvania
Rural Electric Association,
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“We don’t want farmers more at
the mercy of the huge banking
interests,” he said.
“They’d just be caught in a
tighter squeeze it de-regulation
allows the city banks to buy up the
smaller rural banks.
“And the inheritance tax
exemption should be at least a
million dollars for a farm.”
But the hike in the exemption
from $175,000 to $600,000 is a step in
the right direction, Specter
commented.
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Tetherow also called for
upgrading of the inland waterway
system He explamed that a gallon
of diesel moves farm products 75
ton miles by truck, 250 ton miles by
railroad and 400 ton miles by
barge
Also testifying was Harold Ely, a
dairy farmer, from Montrose and
president of the Pennsylvania
Association of Farmer
Cooperatives.
Specter questioned him quite
closely on the effects of the waiver
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of the April 1 milk support and the
level that parity should be set in
the farm bill.
“Seventy-five percent is a must
for parity,” Ely said
“And 80 percent would keep
young farmers in business who are
going to be squeezed out.”
Ely explained Ije has seen some
dairy farm sales, mostly by elderly
people who have had it.
“The young farmers will be able
to hang in for about another year,
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