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VOL 31 No. 24
Senator Wenger discusses ag land preservation
“I do not believe land preser
vation for agriculture runs counter
to development,” said state
Senator Noah Wenger. Scheduled
to speak to 200 farmers and their
wives at the Sixth Annual Farm
Appreciation Day Dinnere for
Fidelity Bank in Atglen, PA,
Wenger gave his thoughts prior to
the meeting.
“If you have agriculture, you
also have agri-business and all the
huge manufacturing and
distribution chains that make up
the economy. And since everybody
benefits from ag preservation, it’s
a worthy project for everyone to
USDA official calls for sheep industry overhaul
BY JACK RUBLE Y
LANCASTER - All over the
country milk, red meat and poultry
producers are discovering that
there’s nothing free about the free
enterprise system. Uncle Sam’s
begun buying dairy herds, egg
producers have written a surplus
hen removal clause into their new
marketing order and every
commodity group has mounted
aggressive promotional cam
paigns aimed at restoring that
elusive balance between supply
and demand. In the long run,
everyone pays.
When it comes to livestock, if
American fanners are producing
These frisky steers got a taste of new grass this week while
the farmer out on the hill could enjoy the first field work of the
season. Colorful flowers, sprouting green*yellow leaves, grass
tall enough to blanket the meadows and the warm weather of
early spring maks this time of year a welcome respite from
Five Sections
support. Sometimes’ developers
think ag preservation works
against them. But that’s not true,”
the Senator emphasized. “I
represent one of the most
progressive areas in the state as
far as development is concerned.
But we need to look at ag land
preservation from a business point
of view. Farmers must look at it
from a business view and so must
the general public.”
“The farmer who may have
financial problems could look to
the sale of a land easement to
relieve his debt problem and not
need to sell the farm out of the
it, then chances are they’re
producing too much of it...with one
exception.
Of all the red meats, lamb is the
only commodity being consumed
at a •mater rate than it’s being
produced in this country, says
A livestock and
veterinary sciences staff leader
with USDA, Hubbard was the
keynote speaker at two sheep
meetings held in Berks and Lan
caster Counties this week.
Addressing Lancaster County
sheep producers at the Farm and
Home Center on Thursday
evening, Hubbard warned that the
industry would have to come to
Upcaster Fannins, Saturday, April 12,1986
"family. Irt that way the restrictions
on the deed could benefit both the
farm family and preserve the land
for agriculture in the future as a
benefit to the general society.”
In addition, Wenger announced
the unanimous senate passage of a
bill he supported aimed at
assisting farmers whose poultry
and swine have been hit with two
recent strains of desease. This
legislation would appropriate a
total of- $1.2 million toward the
eradification of the most recent
outbreak of avian flu in poultry and
pseudorabies in swine. The
legislation, which has been sent to
grips with its weaknesses before
sheep producers could take ad
vantage of their enviable position
in the marketplace.
First and foremost on Hubbard’s
list of industry bugaboos is the
problem of uneven supply. “This
was the number-one problem that
the sheep industry brought to me
back in 1967,” Hubbard s^id,
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the cold drab winter. This scene from "Lancaster Farming
Territory" came into the viewfinder of Everett Newswanger's
camera along Kissel Hill Road near the corner of Oregon
Road. Lancaster County.
the house for consideration, would
appropriate funds to provide in
demnification for live birds and
poultry products recently
destroyed because of the avian flu
to clean and disinfect affected
premises and to provide indemnity
payments to swine owners who
slaughter their swine to help
eradicate pseudorabies,” Wenger
explained. “By securing these
funds we are offering both
proactive and reactive solutions
towards the spread of disease
among our states valuable poultry
flocks and swine herd,” the
Senator said.
noting that little has been done'to
alleviate the problem in the last 20
years.
Although some producers have
pointed the finger at the packing
industry for not to
demand for lamb, the *JHem
really lies with producers
themselves, Hubbard emphasized.
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“Not only are we providing
assistance to those farmers who
have been directly affected by the
disease, we are also taking steps
toward preventing their spread.”
Wenger expressed optimism that
the house would act quickly on
passage of the farmer-assistance
measure.
The local farmers were invited
by the Fidelity Bank to the West
Fallowfield Christian Day School,
Atglen, PA, on Friday evening for
a family style meal to let their
farm patrons get to know bank
personnel better.
Everett R. Newswanger
Former editor
returns to
Lane Farming
an interim of nearly 15
years, a former editor of Lan
caster .Farming newspaper has
returned to the farm news beat this
week as managing editor of this
newspaper. Everett R.
Newswanger, who served first as
staff reporter and then as editor
for a five-year period beginning in
the, sixties has been named
managing editor of Lancaster
Farming, according to Robert G.
Campbell, Publisher of the widely
distributed farm weekly.
A graduate of Paradise High
School in 1953, Newswanger
earned credits in Journalism from
the University of Oklahoma and
News Writing from Penn State
University. Most recently he was
associated with Trade Tech
Management, Inc., of Lancaster
and was instrumental in the
development of a commodities
trading system that effectively
measures market pressures.
Newswanger has served clients
in marketing, advertising and
public relations both from his
personal business associations and
as an account representative for
the Joseph Hull’s advertising
agency in Lancaster. He has
written copy for numerous ads,
product releases, slide shows and
travel guides. As a professional
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