A2B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 14,1985
HERSHEY - The Pennsylvania
Farmers’ Association (PFA) has
recommended new positions on
dairy and federal tax reform
issues.
At their recent annual meeting,
PFA delegates voted to recom
mend that their national affiliate,
the American Farm Bureau
Federation, change their dairy
policy to support whole-herd
buyout and dairy diversion
programs funded by producer
assessments if government sur
plus dairy purchases remain high.
American Farm Bureau had
adopted policy at their last annual
meeting opposing any further
dairy assessment programs.
PFA delegates also recom
mended that Farm Bureau
national policy be changed to
Inter-State picks
new director
SOUTHAMPTON, PA. - Adams
County dairyman Samuel K.
Stoner was named a director of
Inter-State Milk Producers’
Cooperative, according to
President Robert B. McSparran.
Stoner, East Berlin, Pa., was
selected by Inter-State’s District 24
members to replace Director Roy
A. Weaner Jr, Weaner is retiring
from the board following 20 years
of service.
Stoner, 45, farms in partnership
with his brother, Gerald. Inter-
State members since May 1974, the
brothers milk 70 Holsteins and
farm 150-owned and 150-rented
acres of land.
A graduate of both Messiah
College and Bucknell University,
Stoner is currently president of
District 24. He has also served as
an Inter-State delegate, local
president and is a member of the
Resolutions Committee. He is a
member of the Reading Township
Planmng Commission, the local
Young Farmers, the Adams
County Farmers’ Association and
is a deacon at Morning Hour
Brethren in Christ Church.
As a new director, Stoner said he
believes strongly in working for
the financial stability of the
cooperative. It is important, he
said, to “keep the financial picture
looking good.”
Stoner and his wife, Elizabeth,
are the parents of three sons,
Larry, Allen and Nathan.
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PFA recommends
oppose provisions of President
Reagan’s tax reform plan which
would eliminate; investment tax
credit; ACRS accelerated
depreciation; capital gains
treatment on sale of business
assets; and immediate deductions
for pre-production expenses. That
policy, like the dairy recom
mendation, will be taken to
American Farm Bureau’s annual
convention, Jan. 12-16 at Atlanta,
Ga.
In other action, delegates
adopted policy calling for:
the establishment of a state
Animal Health Commission to
coordinate animal health,
research, diagnostic and in
demnity programs for agriculture;
the right to a local vote on the
installation of private jails in a
municipality;
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new stands on
final authority for en
forcement, licensing, regulation,
and control of pesticides and
herbicides to rest with the state
agriculture department;
support of any action by
Congress to reserve the Farm
Credit System;
PFA to take an active role in
the planning of high-speed rail
systems.
and, mandatory seat belt use.
In other business, Voting
Delegates re-elected dairyman D.
Eugene Gayman of Cham
bersburg, Franklin County to his
fifth consecutive term as PFA vice
president. Delegates also re
elected five directors and elected
three new directors to serve two
year terms on PFA’s State Board
of Directors.
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dairy issues, taxes
Delegates re-elected David
Jayne of R. D. #l, Laceyville,
representing Susquehanna,
Wayne, * Wyoming and
Lackawanna counties; Roy
Christman of R. D. #l, Hamburg,
representing Berks, Montgomery,
Chester, and Delaware counties;
Charles Benner of R. D. #4, Mid
dleburg, representing Snyder,
Northumberland, Union, and
Montour counties; Guy Donaldson
of Gettysburg, representing
Adams, Franklin, Cumberland,
and Fulton counties; Mrs. Martha
Rhoades of R. D. § l, Emlenton,
representing Jefferson, Clarion,
and Armstrong counties.
Newly elected to the State Board
of Directors are: Karl Kroeck of
Knoxville, Tioga County,
representing Bradford, Sullivan,
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Potter, Tioga and McKean
counties; Paul Yoder of Salisbury,
Somerset County, representing
Blair, Somerset, and Bedford
counties; and Donald Unangst of
Fredonia, Mercer County,
representing Butler, Lawrence,
Beaver and Mercer counties.
In other business, PACMA, the
marketing cooperative of PFA,
returned one board member and
elected two new members to three
year terms. Earl Newcomer of R.
D. #l, Washington Boro, Lancaster
County, was re-elected to
represent PACMA members in
central and northcentral Penn
sylvania. R. Stewart Ramm of
Lock Haven, Clinton County,
elected to represent vegetable
growers and John Guthrie of
Apollo, Armstrong County was
elected to represent cattlemen.
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