PFA legislative priorities
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most emotional and likely most
discussed by farmers - appears to
be in trouble, at least for this year.
With the introduction of new
Milk Security Fund legislation that
is aimed at getting the bankrupt
program back on sound financial
footing, this ever-present
economic threat to state dairymen
is lessened.
“This has been a serious issue of
the past two years,” Eckel said,
“and the new legislation should
receive favorable action from the
General Assembly.”
Long-term, Eckel and the PFA
launched an effort for farmland
preservation before a joint session
of the House and Senate ag com
mittees the week before.
“We must make a long-term
commitment to preserve far
mland, not for a few years or a
lifetime, but for generations to
come, Eckel said.
“The key is a well-financed
purchase of development rights
program. All Pennsylvanians will
benefit and all Pennsylvanians will
need to share in paying for it.”
And the third concern is the one
that has been demonstrated by
county associations along road
ways throughout the state and one
that becomes more emotional and
personal because each and every
member of a farm family has been
contending with it on a growing
basis.
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That, of course, is the trash
tossed along roads and into fields,
particularly the beverage cans and
bottles.
And while each farmoi attending
the conference likely related
closest to this issue and probably
brought it up more readily in
Capitol contacts during the day, it
is the proposed legislation calling
for a mandatory deposit that
seemingly is in the most stalled
position at least for the moment.
The strong container and
beverage lobby has apparently
been pushing its loss-of-job
leverage to the utmost, par
ticularly in the western part of the
state.
Eckel stood before the packed
audience at the Penn Harris Motor
Inn and traced the life span and
costs of that trash, which can end
up embedded in a tractor tire or
the gut of a cow.
Holding up the paper sack; <
“It takes three years for this to
decompose.”
Next, a steel can
“This won’t rot away until after
five years.”
An aluminum can;
“This takes 500 years to
decompose.”
Plastic container
“Twelve to 17 years to disap
pear.”
And finally a brown beer bottle:
“Now, this critter takes one
million years to decompose.”
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Crawford County delegation at PFA Legislative Banquet in Harrisburg this week in
cludes, seated from left, AMen Post, Jean Scouten and Cathy Miller; standing from the
left, Wilson Gum, Rep. Tom Swift, Rep. Jim Merry and Ork) Burnham.
Eckel estimated it costs Penn
sylvania fanners some $37 million
a year to contend with the cans,
bottles and trash.
And, he reported, it costs state
taxpayers $64.00 a mile to clean up
highways and if that amount were
projected for PennDOT over the
entire road network, it would
amount to some $3 million a year.
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PFA urges rabies action
CHAMBERSBURG - The
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association (PFA) has urged the
General Assembly to take
measures to upgrade the state’s
diagnostic and research facilities
to meet the deadly threat of rabies
which is spreading in southcentral
Pennsylvania.
At a hearing of the House
Committee on Health and Welfare
today, PFA spokesman John
Stoner of Mercersburg, Franklin
County, said, presently, “...our
diagnostic and prevention services
are so overloaded that we no
longer have an accurate way to
track the spread or seriousness of
the disease.”
He added, “The Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania’s diagnostic
facilities can no longer test all
rabies suspect animals and now
limit testing to cases where a
person is actually bitten. If we are
serious about controlling rabies in
Pennsylvania and protecting the
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disease we must upgrade our
diagnostic and research
facilities.”
Stoner, a dairyman and hog
producer, noted that Pennsylvania
has experienced an average of two
new cases of rabies in domestic
animals and wildlife each day this
year. He noted that eight members
of his family and five neighbor
children required a costly four
week series of rabies prevention
shots last summer because of
exposure to a rabies-suspect cat.
“It is easy to see why both I and the
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association are concerned about
the rabies situation in Penn
sylvania,” he said.
PFA also expressed support for
the concepts contained in
legislation, H B 1700, which would
require all dogs in the state to be
vaccinated against rabies. PFA
has policy calling for vaccination
of all dogs and also recommending
that proof of vaccination be
required before licensmg.