Sign up for Agricultural
Conservation Program
LANCASTER - The annual
Agricultural Conservation
Program will be open for sign-up
during January 1965 at the Lan
caster Office of the Agriculture
Stabilization and Conservation
Service (ASCS) located in the
Farm and Home Center.
Producers may request cost-share
assistance for conservation
projects on farmland which needs
treatment because of erosion,
sedimentation, or pollution
problems.
Ray A. Brubaker, County
Executive Director, stated that
funds will be available for high
priority problems at the cost-share
rate of 75 percent of the cost but not
to exceed $3500 per farmer. Lower
priority practices may be cost
shared at 50 percent of the cost.
Following the sign-up period,
which closes January 31, the local
ASCS county committee will
review all requests to determine
priorities for approval. All
requests will receive equal con
sideration. No approvals will
USDA Wants Comments
On Dairy Referendum
WASHINGTON - Comments
will be accepted until Feb. 4 on
U.S. Department of Agriculture
proposed procedures for' con
ducting referenda on the Dairy
Research and Promotion order
and proposed amendments to the
order.
The action is in preparation for a
referendum on continuation of the
order that the secretary of
agriculture is required to conduct
within the 60-day period ending
Sept. 30,1985.
The research and promotion
program, which was authorized in
the Dairy and Tobacco Adjustment
Act of 1983, is financed by a 15-cent
per hundredweight assessment on
all milk produced in the contiguous
48 states and marketed com
mercially by dairy farmers. The
program is administered by a
board of 36 dairy farmers ap
pointed by the secretary of
agriculture with representation
based on area milk production.
Proposals include procedures for
conducting the initial referendum
and any subsequent referenda. The
proposed amendments would
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Farrowing Crates - Gestation Stalls
Vertical Bar Fencing
made on a first-come, first-serve
basis.
Eligible practices, according to
Brubaker, are sod waterways,
cropland terraces, diversions,
contour stripcropping, no-tilling
demonstration, and animal waste
storage structures. Each practice
must be designed by the Soil
Conservation Service and the
completed project must meet their
specifications.
With increasing water quality
problems throughout the county,
the program will lessen the burden
for individual farmers in meeting
installation expenses. The
established conservation
measures will not only benefit the
farmer with increased production
and nutrient savings but win also be
beneficial to the public with im
proved water quality for con
sumption and recreation.
For more information about the
program, interested persons
should call the ASCS Office at 397-
6235.
change the name of the order to
make it consistent with the name
of the board and make a change in
board voting procedures.
The proposal is published in the
Dec. 3 Federal Register. Com
ments should be sent to the Dairy
Division, room 2968-S, AMS,
USDA, Washington, D.C. 20250.
The Dec. 5 Federal Register is
available for public review at
County Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Offices in
Pennsylvania.
Crop Conference
The Garrett County Crop Con
ference will be held Thursday, Jan.
3 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the
Bittinger Community Building,
Bittinger, Md. The program will
address problems many farmers
have encountered this year, as well
as information on up-to-date
research and programs occurring
in Maryland and at the University
of Maryland. More information
can be obtained by contacting the
county Extension Service, phone
301-334-2145.
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