A24-LancMter Fannins, Saturday, February 8,1986 SPECIAL TO LANCASTER FARMING HERSHEY - The State Council of Farm Organizations February 3 annual meeting was marked by a somber report on Penn State College of Agriculture funding needs and two controversial resolutions during the policy session. “We need $ll million to wean ourselves from the federal (fun ding) system,” Acting College of Agriculture Dean Dr. Wayne Hinish told Council members. Flat federal budgets coupled with Gramm-Rudman have led to the shortfall. Currently, federal dollars ac count for more than 50 percent of the extension budget and more than 30 percent of the research budget. Dr. Hinish said. In order to maintain programs at their current levels, that shortfall will have to be met in the next two to three years, he said. On a more positive note, “no state has a comparable computer network that matches Penn sylvania’s Penn Network,” Dr. Hinish assured the audience. The system is available to any citizen in Pennsylvania with access to a computer, modem and telephone. And student enrollment is up 4.5 percent in 1986, perhaps an in dication that enrollment has bottomed out, he said. However, Dr. Hinish noted that Penn sylvania as a whole needs to do a CAtLUS FOR FREE ESTIMATES on TOP QUALITY BARN SPRAY & BRUSH PAINITING - Try Our New Concept In Penetration And Adhesion. In 1985 To earn a dollar - give a dollars worth of service and work Pay only $750 for the best kind of barn painting on an average barn - if you pay more you paid too much Being self-employed, enables me to take the time to properly apply my*barn paint & sealer at prices below suggested retail cost Proper application requires adjusting the viscosity of the paint to attain the best penetration and .adhesion thereby assuring you an excellent paint job. 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The state ranks 44th out of 50 in high school students going to college. In the policy session, questions arose regarding a proposed state resolution dealing with commodity marketing boards and an existing federal policy position dealing with assigned payments. The new resolution implied support of House Bill 1888, which would amend the current Com modity Marketing Act. That bill was passed by the House and is currently in the Senate. Tempers flared as spokesmen on each side of the issue stated their reasons for support or opposition. When put to a vote, at least one Council member voted “nay.” Because of the Council’s unanimity rule, that resolution failed. The existing federal resolution had been passed in response to the Schepp’s Cheese situation. The proprietary handler withheld funds from farmer milk checks to make payments on FmHA loans, under a signed agreement with the farmer. However, the firm did not make the loan payments. Discussion centered around the section of the resolution which stated that “the lender must notify the producer that his payment is delinquent after 10 days.” Farm Credit System representatives asked the group if this implied that the farmer would not be liable for the payment if the lender made notification in 11 days rather than 10 and how the Council intended notification to take place. This section of the resolution was deleted, making the Council’s policy position one of support for legislation which would make it a crime of embezzlement if any other business failed to make a payment on a farmer account if the farmer had directed the business to withhold funds and do so. The Council also now supports any efforts to make the federal government require that the Grubb to speak at York Agribusiness Seminar YORK The Honorable Richard E. 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