Elizabethtown Sale PDA To Study Farmland Loss
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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. By far the sale’s most
active lamb buyer, Fox was high
bidder on 12 of the 26 animals of-
Doug Musser (at halter) sold his Elizabethtown Fair
champion FFA steer to Frank Groff, Groff's Meats, for $1.07 a
pound
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The lamb sale grossed $4,321, for
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Agriculture has selected Bucks
County as one of three counties for
an “Agricultural Land Data
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the study is to track the conversion
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After winning last week's county 4-H swine show, Chad
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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
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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
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fastest and most wide-spread rate
of farmland loss.
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flown aerial photos of 1985 cannot
keep pace with the rapid rate of
change in the landscape. The rate
of farmland loss is alarming.”
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