Elizabethtown Sale PDA To Study Farmland Loss (Continued from Page A 24) across the block averaged 66 cents a pound, not counting Doug Musser’s champion that brought the top bid of $1.07. The buyer of Musser’s champion was Frank Groff of Groff’s Meats, Elizabethtown. The sale’s four steers brought $3,554. The sale’s high overall bid was offered by Leroy Fox of Fox’s Markets, Middletown, who set a fair record by offering $6 per pound for Mark Tracy’s champion sale lamb. 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PO Box 9101 Canton Ohio 44711-9101 Area Code □ p^T| District is responsible for locally conducting the study, and has contracted Laurel Mueller, a soil scientist for Soil Services Co., Inc., to manage the project. Active farmland in 1980 and 1985 are being inventoried through the scanning of aerial photos and field checks. The percentage change in Zip- Stale- Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 30,1956-A33 acreage over the 5-year penoa wiu be determined for each township in Bucks. The study will generate data for each interested township to closely examine their own trends. According to Mueller, the three counties were selected by the Department of Agriculture to represent three different types of transition. These counties are; Dauphin, Somerset, and Bucks. Somerset, a very rural county, is presumed to be gaining in agricultural land, following mine reclamation. Dauphin’s farmland losses are concentrated around Harrisburg. Bucks County, having the strongest development pressures, is expected to show the fastest and most wide-spread rate of farmland loss. Cheryl Johnson of the Penn sylvania Department of Agriculture in Harrisburg is state wide coordinator of the project. According to Johnson, the project is a pilot study to develop methods of regularly inventorying and monitoring farmland throughout the state. Lisa Ishimuro, the aerial photo interpreter for the Bucks study, notes, “Even the most recently flown aerial photos of 1985 cannot keep pace with the rapid rate of change in the landscape. The rate of farmland loss is alarming.” Laurel Mueller, often respon sible for evaluating soil suitability for developers, states, “Soils that pass the tests for septic system permits, or that are otherwise legally buildable, are deep, well drained, and on gentle slopes. Prime farmland is what fits the bill. What’s left are the floodplains, wetlands, mountainsides, and boulderfields." 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