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VOL. 32 No. 45
Egg Marketing Association
Learns Of Salmonella Research
BY LOU ANN GOOD
LANCASTER News out
breaks on salmonella enteritidis is
causing the Pennsylvania Egg
Marketing Association concern.
At their monthly meeting on
Thursday evening at the Olde
Hickory Inn, University of Pen
nsylvania personnel Dr. David
Kradel, a veterinarian, and Dr.
Charles Benson, scientist, shared
current findings and possible solu
uons in dealing with the disease.
Dr. David Kradel said that sta-'
ustics pinpoint that more sal
monella cases are being reported in
the northeastern part of the coun
try. Of 2000 people who were con
tamindated by the virus, eleven
deaths resulted. Many of these
cases are linked with egg or egg
Effect Of Tax Changes On Dairy Farmers
BY KARL BERGER
Special Correspondent
Don’t call it the Tax Reform Act
of 1986 around dairy fanners. The
package of changes Congress
passed late last year to simplify the
federal income tax code and
reduce the tax burden for many
individuals will do neither for most
dairy fanners.
The changes, which began to
take effect this past January, were
supposed to make it easier for most
taxpayers to file their returns. But,
as many dairy farmers will soon
discover, the changes will have the
opposite effect on them, requinng,
in many cases, more records and
more forms than were necessary in
the past, according to Larry Jenk
ins, a farm management specialist
at Penn State University.
Dick Dennison, manager of the
Pennsylvania Farmers Associa
tion’s Farm Management Scr
New Bolton Hosts
FARMER Fundraiser
BY PAT PURCELL
KENNETT SQUARE (CHES
TER CO.) Farmers, state legi
slators and others involved in the
farming industry gathered Thurs
day at a luncheon sponsored by the
Farmers Allied for Responsive,
More Efficient Representation
(FARMER), the political action
committee of the Pennsylvania
Farmers Association.
Bob Wagner of the American
Seven Counties Eligible For Aid
HARRISBURG (AP) U.S
Agriculture officials on Wednes
day approved disaster declarations
for seven Pennsylvania counties so
drought-plagued farmers can app
ly for federal aid.
The department’s disaster
declaration was for the counties of
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pl-RfODICALr. Ii (VISION
products contamination. He
pointed out, “Although there
appears to be more in the north
eastern states, it may be simply a
more gung ho health department.”
He continued, “We are living in
a time when the public wants to
live in a no-risk environment.”
A risk-free environment is
impossible Dr. Kradel said, “but
consumers and press perceive the
presence of salmonella enteritidis
a potential disease organism in raw
food as a significant threat to
health.”
Dr. Kradel with Dr. Charles
Benson a microbiologist chemist
who has studied salmonella for the
last 18 years, reported on the
research they are conducting at
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vices, concurs. The new tax code,
he said, “is not tax simplification
in any Way, shape or form.”
•Th«.changes also were designed
to be “revenue neutral”
balancing reduction in the high
marginal rates paid by individuals
with large incomes, for instance,
against the elimination of most tax
shelters. Because dairymen took
advantage of many of these shel
ters, they tend to be among those
who lose rather than gain under the
new law.
A study done this spring by
Jenkins and colleague William
Gnslcy found that more dairymen
will pay more taxes as a result of
the changes. The economists
analyzed the 1984 returns of 2,091
dairymen who were Farm Man
agement Services clients. Project
ing their tax liability under the new
code, the researchers concluded
that these farmers would pay an
Farmland Trust spoke to the group
on the farmland preservation prog
rams running sucessfully in sever
al states and explained how the
programs operate.
The luncheon and accompany
ing tour of the University of Pen
nsylvania School of Veterinary
Medicine’s New Bolton Center
were sponsored to raise money to
contribute to the campaigns of
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Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin,
Lebannon, Perry, Schuylkill and
York.
In addition, the adjacent coun
ties of Adams, Carbon, Columbia,
Juniata, Lehigh, Luzerne, Mont
gomcr, Northumberland and
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 12, 1987
BY PAT PURCELL
Robert J. Anderson, Coopera
tive Extension head of the New
Holland satellite office, will fill the
post left vacant by Arnold G.
Lueck, who retired in December
from the Lancaster County
Cooperative Extensive Service
staff.
Due to a state spending freeze
funds were not made available to
allow for an immediate appoint
ment to Lueck’s post. Anderson
may join the staff by the end of
September as soon as his replace
ment can be found for the New
Holland office.
Anderson, 43, will bring to his
new position as county agronom
average of $532 more in federal
income taxes. However, a few
dairymen, 150 of those studied,
would wind up paying less and
1,028, almost half the total, would
see no change, according to the
study.
The authors note the impact of
the tax law changes is more severe
on dairying than it is on most other
areas of fanning, an effect they
attribute tot he dairyman’s greater
use of the exclusion on capital
gains income and investment tax
credit, both of which have been eli-
When you get a chance to show someone around your dairy farm who
knows nothing about milking cows or feeding calves but wants to learn, that’s
fun.
And that’s what happened to Stephanie Meyers, Franklin County Dairy Prin
cess, when Franklin County Fair Queen Leslie Finnegan got together last
week. Bonnie Breckbill, Franklin County Correspondent has the story on page
819. You’ll want to read it!
Anderson Chosen
To Fill County Post
Four Sections
ist, many years of agricultural
experience in the county as well as
throughout the state. He served the
Adult Farmer Program adviser in
the Eastern Lancaster County
School District for nearly 12 years.
He left the Adult Farming Program
to take his present position at the
New Holland office when funds
were made available by the Rural
Clean Water Program in January
of 1986 to study nutrient
management.
“I consider this the most chal
lenging position in the state. To
join the staff in Amie’s position is
really a golden opportunity for me
and I feel very fortunate to have
been selected,” said Anderson.
minated. In a recent phone conver
sation, Jenkins said the loss of the
capital gains exclusion used
mainly to shield 60 percent of the
income from cull cow sales is
the most important of these
factors.
Othcr changes that may increase
the tax liability for dairymen,
according to Jenkins and other
advisors, include the elimination
of the deduction for two-earner
couples, the loss of an exclusion on
income from dividends and more
use of the alternative, straight-line
$8.50 Per Year
Anderson began his career in state
agriculture at Penn State Universi
ty. Upon graduation in 1969 he
taught at Wallenpaupack High
School in northeastern
Pennsylvania.
“Agriculture not being real big
up there I decided to return to New
Holland where I had done some
student teaching and still had some
contacts. I worked for Sperry-New
Holland until I went in die Army,”
said Anderson.
After serving at Fort Dix as a
drill instructor Anderson returned
to agriculture and joined the feder
al Soil Conservation Service at the
West Chester office in Chester
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depreciation schedule.
No more capital gains exclusion
will have a major impact on one
special class of dairymen: those
planning to sell out. In the past, far
mers who sold their cows or their
farms paid, at worst, no more than
20 percent of these capital gains in
taxes (40 percent taxable at a top
rate of 50 percent). By contrast, all
capital gains in 1987 (when the top
marginal rate is 38 percent) and
beyond will be taxed at 28 percent.
Selling off assets over several
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