A34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Saptamber 15,1984
Bay cleanup
(Continued from Page Al)
their way into the Chesapeake
Bay, lies half of the reason for the
twin news conferences held
Monday.
The Dauphin County Con
servation District also held its
meeting on the Millersburg banks
of the Susquehanna to launch its
public fund drive for $350,000 to
build a new Ag Center at the in
tersection of Rts. 225 and 325 north
of Dauphin.
In a resolution passed by the
District, a 13-member committee
was created to oversee the fund
drive, which will complement
$250,000 already earmarked by the
Dauphin County Commissioners.
Members of the committee
representing ag groups include
RonaldKopp, Middletown; Wilmer
Campbell, Halifax; Pat Baum,
Elizabethtown; Bob Messick,
Elizabethtown; Dwight Hoffman,
Halifax; Jay Book and Richard
Hann, Hershey.
The new Agriculture and
Natural Respources Service
Center, to be built on land being
donated by farmer Meade Det
weiler, will contain meeting and
office facoilities for the Con
servation District, SCS, ASCS,
Extension and others.
And, following their riverside
meeting, the Dauphin con
servationists boarded the ferry
with their counterparts from Perry
and other nearby counties for the
midriver address by Swartz on
Pennsylvania’s approach to
helping to clean up the Bay.
In his talk, Swartz admitted that
not everyone is in agreement with
the continuation of a voluntary
approach to get farmers to better
manage their nutrients and
prevent their runoff.
A million dollars of first-year
money put up by the State and
Federal Government will go
toward aiding farmers install
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MT. AETNA ORCHARDS
3Vi miles north of Myerstown
along PA 501
Mt. Aetna, PA
Better Management Practices.
Maximum available per farm will
be $30,000 on an 80 percent cost
share basis funded by government.
The DER will be adding three
field people to work with farmers,
including a mobile nutrient testing
laboratory.
Various BMP demonstration
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projects will be funded.
Penn State will handle research
on better nitrogen soil tests and
making BMP’s more efficient.
The Pa. Association of Con
servation Districts will handle
publicity and promotion.
While initial efforts will be
concentrated in the critical
watersheds of the Lower
Susquehanna, it is hoped that
succeeding efforts will be ex
panded upstream, too.
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• Installation & Maintenance of
Concrete Bunker Silos
• Stone Wall Repairs
• PreCast Gunite Lined Water or
Manure Storage Tanks
Portable Ear Corn Mill
• Inventory Reduction Salt
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Tom Dnnlap, Jersey Shore, PA
Erb and Henry, New Berllnvllle, PA
Flcke* SUo Co., NewvlUe, PA
S.G. Lewis and Son, Inc., West Grove, PA
R.T. Markle Farm Equip., Inc., State College, PA
Marshall Machinery, Inc., Honesdale, PA
MKS Enterprises, Inc., Hanover, PA
Northeast Equip. Co., Northeast, PA
North Penn Sealstor, Bloomsburg, PA
Swartz outlined a lenghty litany
of figures showing ag’s respon
sibility in loading the Bay with
nutrients, principally nitrates and
phosphates.
Things like;
-Sixty percent of phosphate non
point nutrient runoff and 85 per
cent of nitrate non-point runoff
comes from ag lands.
-In the Upper Conestoga area of
Lancaster County, some farmers
use as much as 203 pounds more of
nitrogen per acre than they need.
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Sollenberger Slice Corp., Chambenbnrg, PA .
Stoufier Broe., Inc., Chambenbnrg, PA
Swope and Baahore, Inc., Myentown, PA
Tam Agrl Corp., DOlebnrg, PA
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Unlonlown Farm Equipment, Unlonlown, PA.
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-Problems are worse on rented
land and one-third of cropland in
the River Basin is leased.
-About 1.8 million acres of land
need some sort of conservation
practices and BMP’s are needed
by 60 percent of livestock farmers
and 7,800 of the 13,000 dairy far
mers.
The Commonwealth program
has been tagged “The Penn
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