Farmland Preservation Details Need Time WEST MIDDLESEX—ft Will be several months before the Com monwealth’s model Farmland Pre servation Act is put into effect, Pennsylvania Agriculture Secret ary Boyd Wolff told a group of the measure’s supporters. In a report to the 16th annual Pennsylvania Farmers Union convention, Wolff said the lime will be needed to pass enabling legislation and sell $lOO million worth of bonds to fund the program. In the meantime, he urged interested farmers to deve lop agricultural districts now, so they will qualify for the program. The Farmland Preservation Act allows farmers to sell development rights to their land to the state, in return for a promise the land will not be developed for non agricultural uses. Farmers are paid the difference between market val ue on the land for agricultural pur poses and for development purposes. 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High quality and good packaging are the keys to interna tional success, he said. “We are not only competing with other states, but with other Indiana Farms Wins Holstein Honors LOUISVILLE, KY Beer Farms, Inc., of Beme, Indiana exhibited the Grand Champion Female and Senior Champion Female, C Briju TT Tasha, in the Southeast Regional Holstein Open Show at the North American Inter national Livestock Exposition. Reserve Grand Champion Female, Cash-Mar CM Astronaut Socks, is owned by Walter, Dway ne and Eric Hickman of Danville, IN. She also captured Reserve Senior Champion Female today. YOUR kssMuis ’ ® | PURINA HHDWSj nations as well,” Wolff said. He pledged th? agriculture depart ment’s growing expertise to help farmers and agribusinesses pro duce dependable supplies at com petitive prices. 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