04-Lancaster Finrtng Saturday, February 20,1988
Wenger Discusses Development Easements At Seminar
BY LISA RISSER
PRESCOTT The state of
Pennsylvania has the authority,
given to it by its voters, to use state
funds to purchase development
easements on prime farmland,
Pennsylvania Senator Noah Wen
ger told Lebanon County farmers
last week.
“Now we need to pass enabling
legislature to get the program
going,” he added.
Adressing attendees at the ag
luncheon seminar sponsored by
the Lebanon Valley National
Bank, Wenger said the state gov
erning bodies are considering
legislation that would allocate
funds to counties based on a for
mula. One method involves distri
buting monies based on the
amount of farmland changing
hands within a county. “We want
the bulk of the money to go where
prime farmland is being sold,”
Wenger declared.
The second plan deals with
proportioning the money based on
the amount of agriculture within a
county.
Asked if he thought the monet
ary amount indicated on the passed
referendum would be sufficient,
Wenger replied, “It is enough for
us to see if the program will work.”
From that point, the state would
develop a full-scale program.
The amount a county would pay
for a development easement is fig
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values for the easement right if
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Wenger advised farmers to care
fully consider their desires before
deciding whether or not to sell
their land’s easement rights. One
reason someone might wish to sell
those rights is if he or she had no
heirs and wanted the land to stay
agricultural. Another reason is to
get cash to pay a debt or to have
cash to leave to heirs who would
not inherit the farm.
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Funds for the state program
won’t be available until the end of
this year or the start of 1989, Wen
ger said.
Agricultural legislation
“The public is demanding that
there be no sulfa residue in hogs
going to market,” Karen Darling,
deputy assistant secretary of mark
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USDA, told farmers. “There is a
trace-back system to find out who
produced the hog with the residue.
The system pertains only to hogs
now but they’re gearing up for
beef. Also legislation has been
proposed for checking fish, which
is a little extreme. How are we
going to do that?”
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check poultry. “It will be much
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won’t have to look at meat bird by
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Charles Parrott vice president of
financial planning with Lebanon
Valley National Bank discussed
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