A36-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 15,1986
HARRISBURG - The Penn
sylvania Farmers’ Association
(PFA) has praised passage of
legislation in the U.S. Congress
that clarifies and improves the
1985 farm program, approved by
Congress in late December.
The legislation (The 1986 Food
Security Improvements Act) was
approved late last week by
Interstate District 8 slates meeting
SOUTHAMPTON - The Ridge Fire Hall, Bucktown, discuss the dairy provisions of the
Morgantown and Kimberton Director Andrew D. Stoltzfus 1985 Farm Bill.
Locals of Inter-State Milk announced. A business meeting wUI be
Producers’ Cooperative District 8 Guest speaker will be Dr. Paul conducted by Stanley R. Guest,
will hold their annual dinner E. Hand, Inter-State general District 8 president, to elect of
meeting March 18 at 7 p.m. at the manager. Hand will review the ficers, delegates and alternate
cooperative’s fiscal year and will delegates for the coming year.
n _ Guest will also present a 25-year
Meeting set for Inter-State District J 5 membership plaque to the Harold
J F. Pyle family, Malvern.
SOUTHAMPTON - The Inter-State Milk Producers’
Washington County and Shenan- Cooperative District 8 covers
doah Locals of Inter-State Milk central Berks County, northern
Producers’ Cooperative District 25
will hold their annual dinner
meeting March 18 at 7 p.m. at the
Boonsboro Fire Hall, Boonsboro,
Md., Director L. Elmer Vickers
announced.
Guest speaker will be James R.
Barnett, Inter-State member
relations manager. Barnett will
Inter-State District 13
SOUTHAMPTON - Inter-State Geary Shade, District 13
Milk Producers’ Cooperative president, will conduct the
District 13 will hold its annual meeting. He will present 50-year
dinner meeting March 20 at 7 p.m. membership plaques to W.H. and
at the Juniata Valley School, Ruby Shultz Jr., James Creek;
Alexandria, Director Charles E. Barron L. Stine, Warriors Mark;
Schilling announced. and Raymond and Ethel Varner,
Guest speaker will be Robert M. Hesston.
Dever, Inter-State assistant Inter-State Milk Producers’
general manager. Dever will ' Cooperative District 13 covers
review the cooperative’s goals for Centre County and parts of Blair,
the coming year and will discuss Clearfield and Huntingdon
the dairy provisions of the 1985 counties.
Farm Bill.
Pesticide training
NEWARK, DE - A training
session for individuals not now
certified as commercial ap
plicators 2 and 3 (forest and or
namental/turf categories,
respectively) has been scheduled
for Tuesday, March 18. It will be
held from 9 a.m. to 12 noon in room
032 Townsend Hall (Routh 896
across from the Chrysler assembly
plant) on the University of
Delaware campus in Newark.
Following the training session,
PFA applauds revisions to 1985 Farm Bill
Congress following an extensive
lobbying effort by more than 200
Pennsylvania farmers in the
nation’s capital this week.
“We have been seeking positive
changes in the 1985 farm program
for several months, and this
legislation carries out the direc
tives of our policy goals,” Keith W.
Eckel, PFA president, said today.
review the cooperative’s goals for
the coming year and will discuss
the dairy provisions of the 1985
Farm BiU.
A business meeting will be
conducted by Tom Firey, District
25 president.
Inter-State Milk Producers’
Cooperative District 25 covers
Washington and Frederick
counties, Md., and Berkeley,
Clarke, Frederick, Jefferson and
Morgan counties, W. Va.
participants may take the cer
tification exam(s) for one or both
applicator categories.
On April 8 ornamental and turf
applicators will have another
opportunity to become certified. A
second training session will be held
from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the same
location. Forest topics will not be
covered.
For more information on either
session, call Jeff Lacour at 451-
2526.
“We believe this legislation will
make a big, overall improvement
both in the administering of the
program and applying the farm
program provisions at the farmer
level.”
Eckel said that the farm group
did oppose further assessments on
dairy farmers, but the bill gave the
U.S. agriculture secretary power
Chester County and parts of
Lancaster and Montgomery
counties.
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to increase the dairy assessment to
farmers another 12 cents per
hundredweight.
The bill did not change the
manner in which producers
calculate milk marketing history
for the whole herd buyout provided
by U}e 1985 farm program, sought
by some dairy interests, according
to the farm leader.
Participants could plant as much
as half of their permitted acreage
in non-program commodities and
receive program benefits under
the set aside provision in the 1985
farm program. These crops could
actually compete with other far
mers, lowering market prices for
non-participating crops.
The action by Congress will
permit only haying and grazing,
unless the agriculture secretary
sees a serious adverse economic
impact, according to Eckel.
Under the 1985 farm bill, the
base acreage formula for deter
mining price supports was based
on a five-year history average.
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reduced crop bases, forcing some
producers to plow under some of
the crop in order to comply with
program guidelines.
“Action by the Congress made a
major change in determining price
supports,” the farm leader said.
“If the farmer’s actual com
pensation under current farm
programs is reduced by more than
three percent this year, he will be
compensated for the reduction
with Commodity Credit Cor
poration (CCC) stocks. That’s a
major improvement for farmers.”
Eckel explained that if the
farmer’s compensation is reduced
by five percent in 1987 or 10 percent
in 1988, he would again be com
pensated with CCC stocks.
Other provisions of the Food
Security Improvements Act set the
salary for the special assistant for
the agricultural trade and food
assistance program; and reduce
the amount of CCC commodities
required to be used in the export
enhancement program from $2
billion to $1 billion.
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