VOL 27 No. 45
Lancaster farmer is pioneer in farmland preservation
BY SHEILA MILLER
EPHHATA Lancaster County
reached a milestone in its efforts to
preserve prime agricultural land
this week as 80-year-old Ivan
Martin became the first countian
to voluntarily restrict his land to
agriculture uses.
Martin, who retired from far
ming in ,1966, earned the title of
farmland preservation “pioneer”'
when he signed a deed restriction 1
which will assure his 128-acre,
Clay Township farm will continue i
to grow corn, alfalfa, and small <
grains “ip perpetuity,’ or forever
andaday. - '
The Lancaster County fanner
learned the Value of rich, fertile -,
soils as a small boy growing upjn
lowa and then moving north to i
Michigan before coming to Penn- ‘
sylvama jn 1923. “1 know better ,
than most what goocLland is,” be I
said, adding the soils on bis Lan
caster County farm were the best ■'
be- more than 30 ,
years offanrung,
Martin explained Unit he has
been “trying to get all the far
mland 1 can in one block” to be
part of the deed restnction
Color Breeds shine at Md . fair
BY DONNA TOMMELLEO
TIMONIUM, Md. Lancaster
County boasted two Maryland
State Fair dairy champs, during
the Labor Day weekend as the
Color Breeds had their day at
Timonmm.
Ephrata dairy farmers Kerry
and Deborah Boyd crossed the
Mason-Dixon line with six head of
Westminster, Md. breeder Wayne Stiles
exhibits the winning form of OPS Golden Daily
Double, the Junior Champion of the 1982
Maiyland State Fair. The senior yearling
Four Sections ■
program. He said several neigh
boring farmers have expressed
interest in. keeping, their farms in
agriculture, too. “Three of the land
joiners could have sold lots and
didn’t,” he stressed.
“farmland preservation is like
going for a swim in the old water
hole,” Martin said. “Once one
jumps m and doesn’t freeze or
drown, the others all jump in too.
Maybe this will be like that.”
According to Aaron Stauffer, one .
of the county’s leading advocates
for farmland preservation, there
are about" 10 farmers within the
county’s 278,000-acre agriculture
preserve areas that have ex
- pressed interest in voluntary deed
restriction. Most of the efforts of
the'county’s Agriculture Preserve
Board have been concentrated in
Clay and Kphrata townships. .
Since none of Martin’s sons were
interested in following their
father’s footsteps on the farm,
Martin has been leasing the farm...
to .tenants smce his retirement. He"
noted that the number of .dairy
cows his present tenant, nephew
Alvin Martin, keeps on the farm
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. Brown Swiss cattle and -returned
several ribbons and one Junior 1
j Champion heavier.
The Boyd’s champion, senior
yearling Keb Clay View Titan
Patty is sired by Lav Le Stretch
Titan and due in November to.
Maple Grove Performer.
When the Golden Guernseys,"
paraded in front of judge Steve 1
claimed her title last weekend as six major
dairy breeds paraded through the Timonium
Fairgrounds Cows Palace.
LancastarFanaiag, Satorday, Saptombtr 11,1982
Signs first deed restriction
- Lancaster" County farmer, Ivan Martin,
second injm right, and wife Fannie became the
first in the county to restrict their farm's future
to agriculture. They signed, their farm's deed
restriction on Tuesday with County Com-
Lovelace of Orangeburg, South
Carolina, Quarryville entry Hollow
View D Delight moved into the
Reserve Junior Champion slot.
Owned and bred by Scott and Elsie
Wolff, the junior yearling is sired
by Housleys AFC Diamond.
Lovelace went with Crown Stone <
Goliath Heidi for bis Grand
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■ missioner Jim Huber, right, and Lancaster
County Agriculture Preserve Board members
Aaron Stauffer, left, and Amos Funk wit
nessing the historic event.
OMB cans cherry set aside
BY GINGER SECRIST MYERS
Staff Correspondent
YORK SPRINGS - On July 2,
during the height of this year's
cherry harvest, the U.S. Office of
Management and Budget took the
unprecedented action of vetoing a
USDA-approved federal
marketing cherry set aside
reserve pool program. This is the
first time such a veto has been
imposed on the order in its twelve
year history.
Explained Everett Weiser,
Weiser Orchards, York Springs, a
processor director to the Cherry
Administrative Board, “The
cherry industry has always had a
real positive feeling about this
Preliminary vote shows sheep
producers favoring promotion
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Wool
producers by a 23,800 to 8,975
margin voted to continue deduc
tions from Commodity , Credit
Corporation wool incentive
' payments to finance promotion of
wool, according to CCC executive
vicepresident Everett Rank.
Preliminary returns show 72.6
percent of the producers favored
the advertising and other market
development activities which
Vote By Producers
For Against Total%
(Number of Producers) Yes
810 348 1,158 70%
Production Represented In Referendum
For Against Total %
(Number of Sheep Owned Yes
37,622 15,473 53,095 71%
$7.50 p*r yiar
marketing order since it helps to
stablize the supply of cherries on
the market from year to year. ’ ’
According to Weiser, the Cherry
Administrative Board, a national
representation of growers and
processors which meets annually,
met June 24 with a representative
from USDA who provided
guidelines to estimate the cherry
crop and bow much should be “set
aside” for later marketing. The
USDA representative is respon
sible for monitoring whether the
Board’s recommendations comply
with USDA marketing regulations.
In light of the expectations for
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would be continued under a
proposed new agreement between
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture and the American
Sheep Producers Council, Inc.
Producers voted in a referendum
held Aug. 16-27.
The proposed agreement
authorizes continued deductions
from payments made under the
National Wool Act on wool and
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