Tioga dairymen file appeal in buyout program BY BARBARA MILLER Staff Correspondent WESTFIELD - Edwin and Sandy Hartman, dairy farmers from Tioga County, filed an appeal charging the USDA with discrimination in the recent Dairy Termination Program. The appeal, which the Hartmans filed April 7, was made in con junction with a class action suit currently in progress in Kentucky, where approximately 40 farmers have brought similar charges against USDA. The claim charges that par ticipating in the milk diversion program, which ended March 31, 1985, adversely affected their bid in the buyout program. Hartman explained that during their participation in the diversion program, their milk production We bought for less... you can, too! SAVINGS on Ford lawn equipment Save on a FORD Yard Tractor QUALITY BUILT FORD U H.R. 30” Cut Rider Mower 11 H.P. 38” Cut Lawn Tractors 16 H.P. 42" or 48” Yard Tractor 12-14-18 HP Lawn & Garden Tractors Prices Start At $1393 00 for 11 H.P. 30” Electric Start Rider ,miwM ** 41 was about 29 percent lower and that nine months of their 12-month base period used for the buyout program occured when they were in the diversion program. This, he said, forced them to bid a much higher figure for the buyout program than if they had never participated in the diversion. “We are being discriminated against because we were forced to bid higher to achieve the same end,” Hartman said. “No matter which period the government had chosen, we would have still been in the diversion program.” Hartman, who milks 80 cows and farms 500 acres, said he doesn’t know how many dairymen who bid in the buyout program had par ticipated in the diversion. However, he said, he knows other dairymen in Tioga County and in New York and Wisconsin, who are IS JOB 1 4? I, >r j| ■^-Ssssa* interested in the lawsuit. Hartman said two preliminary hearings have been held in Ken tucky, although lawyers think the actual procewKnrw begin The Production Credit Association and Federal Land Bank Association of York recently held their three sectional annual stockholders’ meetings. The meetings were attended by 700 members and guests. Leroy R. Bupp, R-2, Seven Valleys and Horace H. Waybright, 1752 Mason Dixon Road, Get LANCASTER FORD TRACTOR. INC. 1655 Rohrerstown Road, Lancaster, PA Flory Mill Exit off Rt. 283 (717)569-7063 Your Lancaster County Reliables until next spring. The attorneys “We want people to understand said they had never before seen that there are attorneys in Ken programs overlap like the buyout tucky who are handling it and that and diversion programs, Hartman there is a legal fund hoing put said. together,” Hartman said. York Farm Credit Holds Annual Meeting tysburg were re elected as Directors to the Federal Land Bank Association Board for three year terms. Elected for a three year term to the Production Credit Association Board was Lester E. Martin of 3926 Guilford Spring Road, Chambersburg. The York Farm Credit Service Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 26,1956-A29 presently provides over $9O million in long term Land Bank loans and $3O million in short term Production Credit Association loans to its borrowers in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Perry and York Counties. Farm Credit is a nationwide credit cooperative which lends money to farmers, farm related business owners, and rural home owners. The York Farm Credit Service is part of the Baltimore District, one of twelve districts throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. |f\ BREAKING MILK RECORDS! Lancaster Farming Carries DHIA Reports Each Month! Ordinary inorganic fertilizers are feeding methods are woefully unreliable. Why risk tree loss? Our tree care specialists will gladly give you more information or a quota tion on feeding your trees and shrubs now. No obligation. Cali 397-3721 Today Ehrlich [ttk'-TREE FERTILIZING AND SPRAYING SERVICE 1278 Lcx>p Rcxid, Lancaster ANHYDROUS AMMONIA 653-1568 Yes, Deep Banding Is The Way To Apply Nitrogen —Call Us For Professional — Application 653-1568 John 653-5718 Randy 464-5131 Jeffrey Frey 733-1568 Linford Weaver HEISEY FARM SERVICE Mt. Joy, PA Are Your Trees Starving? Trust us to feed them operly. Ideally, NOW! Just one application jur liquid organic fertilizer led by hydraulic pressure its, assures tree nounsh vears SINCE 192 t
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