Lancaster Farmers’ Association
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tor, explained the current farmland
program that was passed under Act
149 in 1988. He said that Act 149
so far allowed 74,000 acres owned
by 11,000 landowners to be placed
in ag security areas.
Donald Ranch, a Paradise far
mer and farmers association direc
tor, countered that the current plan
favors a small number of farmers
rather than allowing every farmer
to benefit from the program.
He said the farmland referen
dum that voters passed two years
ago, is underfunded and calculates
that at Sl,oooper acre less than one
percent of the current farmland
could be preserved. Rather than
watch the program fail. Ranch ral
lied farmers to adopt a resolution
that Act 149 be clanged to allow
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Donald L. Ranek, a Paradise farmer and a director of the
association, and Thomas Daniels, Lancaster County Ag
Preserve board director, voiced the pros and cons of the ag
preservation program. Members then voted to support
Ranch's proposal that Act 149 be amended.
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counties to provide property tax
credit, financed by the b6nd issue.
Landowers by accepting the tax
credit would prevent non
agricultural development on
enrolled land for a period of five
years. Each year, the land owner
took the tax credit would automati
cally extend the agreement and
keep the land from development. If
the landowner chooses to pay full
property taxes by refusing the tax
credit, it would allow exit from the
program after five years.
Ranch stressed that his proposal
would allow farm land to be pre
served with a tax credit, and at the
same time, landowners could have
the option to be in or out of the land
preservation program. Planning
would then revolve around wishes
of the land owner rather than town-
cshih
ship supervisors.
Daniel’s said that the Ag Pre
serve Board doesn’t have a ruling
on Ranch's proposal, but they pre
fer a long term rather than short
term preservation.
Ranch countered that his plan
would have a long term effect
while allowing fanners the option
to control their land.
After discussion, members of
the association voted in favor of
Ranch’s proposal.
Local delegates will take the
recommendation to the stata asso
ciation assembly held November
13 through IS. If the state associa
tion agrees, it will endorse legisla
tion to charlge Act 149.
USDA Recommends Amendments
WASHINGTON, DC The
U.S. Department of Agriculture
has recommended several amend
ments to the New York-New
Jersey federal milk marketing
order.
Recommended changes include
shortening by five days the period
in which milk handlers must make
final payments to dairy fanners,
and correspondingly shortening
some other payment and repenting
dates.
Daniel D. Haley, administrator
of USDA’s Agricultural Market
ing Service, said the changes
would bring the order into confor
mity with new New York State
ONLY
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To Milk Order
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 7,1989-A3B
The association voted to add the
mile a minute weed to the list of
noxious weeds in Pennsylvania.
The prichly vine, also hnown as
tearthumb, destroys new tree
plantings and even displaces
Japanese honeysuchle in a single
season. The troublesome weed
must be controlled by landowners
to prevent legal action.
A proposal to ban the general
use of BST, a growth hormone
occuring naturally in dairy cattle,
was rejected by the association.
The association will recom
mend at the annual state conven
tion that nutrient management
legislation be handled by the
Department of Agriculture rather
than the Department of Enviro-
law. The law becomes effective
Jan. 1. 1990.
Haley said making payment
dates agree with that law was one
of many issues raised at an
extended public hearing in June
27, July 21, and November 14-16,
which was convened to consider
proposed amendments to the New
York-New Jersey, New England,
and Middle Atlantic federal milk
marketing orders. USDA will
respond to the other issues raised
at the hearings after it has com
pleted reviewing them, he said.
The recommendations shorten
ing the payment period will
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mental Resources.
The following directors were
chosen; Jane Balmer, district 1;
Bob Fox, district 4; Don Ranch,
district 6; Delmar Weaver, district
7; Raymond Hess, district 9; and
Glenn Aument, district 13.
Free association memberships
were presented to winners of the
contest sponsored by the associa
tion’s newsletter committee. Den
nis and Karen Lehman, Penryn,
were named winners of the photo
contest Their farm will be pic
tured in bach of the association’s
logo. Marlin and Phylis Moyer,
Manheim, won the slogan contest
with their entry; “Lancaster Coun
ty Farmers Growing With Pride.”
appear as a proposed rule in the
Sept 26 Federal Register. Copies
are available from Norman K.
Garber, acting market administra
tor, 708 Third Avenue, N.Y., N.Y.
10017-4101, telephone (212)
309-1600, or from the Dairy Divi
sion, AMS, USDA, Rm. 2968-S,
P.O. Box 96456, Washington,
D.C. 20090-6456.
Comments or exceptions to the
recommendation, in six copies
and postmarked no later than Oct.
17 should be sent to the Hearing
Clerk, Rm. 1083-S, Washington,
D.C. 20250, where they will be
available for public inspection.
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Farm Equip.
717-943-2131
RINGTOWN
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Equipment
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