A3B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 30, 1988
Land Conference:
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tine Sisters in Erie said steward
ship determines obligations. “We''
owe a debt to the next generation.
We are building a new society in
the shell of the old. It must be a
balance between realistic and prac
tical.”
Robert Rodale
The nationally known publisher
of Rodale Press, Inc., reasoned,
“One thing I learned, people
become immune to bad news, but
they do not become immune to
solutions.”
Rodale, who isn’t afraid to
dream big and isn’t discouraged by
impossibilities, said that Lancaster
County farms should be set aside
as a living park where farmers con
tinue their daily duties. A degree of
protection would come if the area
were accessible only by walking,
bicycling or arriving in a horse
drawn carriage.
The farmland must be saved,
Rodale said. “The problem calls
for dreams and a challenge to be
inventive. Make Lancaster
priceless.”
Audience response
Discussion was wide-ranging
during conference breaks as confe
rees wrestled with viable solutions
and rejected others promoted by
Elston Estate
Complete Dispersal
Located just off Dutch Hill Rd. Watch for
auction arrows off Rt. 328 at Shappee’s
Meat Plant, between Elmira, N.Y. & Mll
lerton, Pa. take Caton exit, then go
approx. 3 miles to Dutch Hill Rd., turn
right go approx. 3V4 miles to farm. 2
miles from Caton, N.Y. 10 miles from
Elmira, N.Y. 11 miles from Millerton, Pa.
Having decided to discontinue my farm
ing operation will sell the following on
Saturday- Aug. 13
at 10:30 Sharp
121 Holstein Cattle 121
80 mature cows, several fresh cows &17 to
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breeding age, 14 calves to yrl., 1 service
bull. Interstate tested, preg. ex., cattle
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Selling order machinery at 10:30 cattle
approx. 12:00.
Machinery
Case 1494 diesel trac. w/roll guard only
630 hrs; Case 2290 diesel trac. w/cab, air
radio 2731 hrs.; AC 220 diesel trac.; Case
430 gas trac. needs repairs: Gehl 1500
round baler; Gehl 940 SU box & gear; Gehl
99 blower; NH 12’ 495 haybine; NH 519
spreader w/hyd. tailgate & T bar chain; AC
72 6’ Combine; JD 3940 chopper w/2 row
corn & pickup heads (narrow row); JD 12’
transport disk; JD 13 disk grain drill; IHC
430 baler w/thrower; IHC #352-22’ Trans
port harrows: IHC #5B-6 row corn planter;
IHC 4 row corn planter for parts; IHC #l4
side rake; MF 14”-6 bottom semi mount
plows: Arps 7’ 3 pt. blade; Lamco SU boy
for parts: Gehl bale mover; transport weed
sprayer.
Terms- Cash or Good Check
Sale Under Cover Lunch Available
Owner-
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607-732-9848
Sales Mgr.-
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Mansfield, Pa.- Ph, 717-549-4901
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the conference speakers. Said Vic
tor Ziegler who owns farms in
Lebanon, Myerstown and York,
“It’s great to dream. But we must
be willing to put up the finances to
offset the losses of persons being
hurt by restrictions.” Ziegler who
practices conservation methods
and has also sold off building lots
from untillable farmland believes,
“We should farm the rich fertile
land and live on the rocks and
hills.”
Erma Weaver, former organic
vegetable farm grower, said,
“Meetings such as this one are
important. If the ideas aren’t dis
cussed by educators who get paid
to sit and think, it’s not going to
happen anywhere. Policy would
never get changed.”
She added that her husband is disil
lusioned with coming to meetings
similar to these because they’re too
idealistic. She said, “The bottom
line is that farmers need to earn
more for their products. If they
earn enough, the land will stay in
farming.”
Another conferee, Omcr Bru
baker, a small parttime farmer with
a job in the Agriculture Stabiliza
tion Conservative Service,
added,“People complain of rising
food costs, but when you consider
that only three cents goes toward
Ihe cost of the wheat in bread, then
we know we need major price
hikes for food. It’s a crime we can
pay any cost for recreation, but we
don’t want to pay labor for food.
Consumers are willing to pay for
materials they can see such as plas
tic bags, but they aren’t willing to
pay the farmer enough to cover his
costs.”.
Workshops
Eight workshops were held dur
ing Friday afternoon sessions.
Some such as the one led by Cliff
and Lois Kenagy, Oregon veget
able farmers, who play a major
role in their state farmland preser
vation movement, shared their
story in hopes that others could
glean ideas and insight to apply to
their are.
They said Oregon farmers ran
into difficulty as they dealt with
enroachment. “Farming was being
pushed out; we needed to go furth
er for equipment and supplies:”
Neighbors in nearby housing deve
lopments complained when water
from the Kenagy’s irrigation sys
tem went on the other side of the
fence.
The Kenagys organized a sup
port group and appealed to the
county for farmland protection.
They fought for and won legisla
ture that agricultural land tax
should not be based on resale but
on farm use value, that planning
should happen by the citizens, that
state wide planning goals are
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necessary, that agricultural lands
should be preserved and main
tained for farm use consistent with
existing and future needs for agri
cultural products, forest and open
spaces.
The Kenagys believe that with
Congressman Goodling
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and dwindling standards of living
for farm families.
Dover grain and livestock pro
ducer Mike Hoffman drew audi
ence applause as he summarized
concerns of local farmers. He cited
tremendous increases in grain
prices in a 30-day period, noting
that it has hurt those who purchase
feed, and not helped local grain
growers because they have little
left to sell after back-to-back years
of drought. In addition, grain pro
ducers may expect to lose the last
half of their deficiency payments,
due to the increased market prices.
"It’s not gospel, it’s not law, it’s
not even out of the Ag Commit
tees,” Goodling warned as he
reviewed key points of the
Drought Assistant Act of 1988,
offered in similar legislative pack
ages in both the House and Senate.
The Congressman added that he
anticipated the legislation coming
up for voting under “closed rule,”
which would allow no
amendments.
We Take Trade-Ins
proper plamung “There’s a space
for all, but the community decides
where.” She said, “You’ll need to
do things differently in Lancaster
because it’s a different area, but
it’s possible to find a Lancaster
County way.”
Major points of the Drought
Assistance Act of 1988 include:
• establishment of new
emergency feed assistance prog
rams; extending producer eligibili
ty to those who substantial loss of
feed production and producers not
normally growing their own feed;
• provide disaster payment to
producers with losses of 35 percent
of the 1988 crop due to drought;
crop insurance participants could
receive insurance benefits and dis
aster payments, not to exceed nor
mal crop yield income.
• directs the Secretary of Agri
culture to forego the 50-cent milk
support price cut scheduled for
January 1, 1989;
• allows producers to retain
advance deficiency payments on
any unit of production failed or
unplanted due to the drought,
unless disaster payment had been
received on that unit;
• directs the Secretary to make
available operating loans for 1989
production, and exercise forebear
ance provisions in relation to
FmHA loans.