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Lancaster Chamber OK’s Ag Coordinator Position
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
The Lancaster Chamber of
Commerce and Industry
announced the approval of an ag
coordinator position on Thursday.
The funding and creation of this
new position is being recom
mended by the Chamber’s Agri
culture Committee to assist far
mers and maintain the economic
vitality created by Lancaster’s
blend of agriculture, industry and
tourism.
The committee has long felt
that the best, most practical way to
preserve farmland is to make
farming a more economically
PFA Opposes
CAMP HILL (Cumberland
Co.) — The Pennsylvania Far
mers’ Association (PFA) has
voiced strong support for legisla
tion recently introduced in Con
gress to ban backhauling of chem
icals and garbage in trucks used to
transport food.
Calling it a “dangerous and dis
tasteful, and unfortunately, legal”
practice, PFA president Keith
Eckel of Clarks Summit, Lacka
wanna County, urged passage of
H.R. 3386. The bill, introduced by
Rep. William Clinger (R - 23rd
Dist.), would make it a crime to
use refrigerated food trucks to
backhaul municipal solid waste or
other forms of garbage. The bill
would also ban the use of tank
trucks for hauling liquid food such
as fruit juice, cooking oil, wine
and spirits, and chemicals that are
IF THE SOIL LIFE WAS NOT
KILLED WITH CHEMICALS,
THEN THE MANURE WOULD
QUICKLY DECOMPOSE,
TURN BACK TO EARTH,
AND WOULD NOT POLLUTE
THE WATERS.
Here is the challenge and the answer. Earthworms would
multiply fast, and do your chiseling free to hold the rains for
use in a drought and their manure is free which is said to
weigh as much as the worm itself every day in season if he has
good meals and is healthy. A customer said he counted 44
worms in a spade of soil as big as a man's head! That farmer
has it made - on easy street, while others complain about
compacted soil, sick cows, and low profits. A sign at the bank
said - “If everything else fails, follow directions."
Transgression of God's natural laws has its consequences
and penalty, same as in breaking other laws. Our customers
are the smart and wise farmers, not unbelievers.
It looks like the demand for organic livestock feed and pro
duce will continue to exceed the supply because too many
farmers are sleeping, and our $B.OO soybean price should
stay. Therefore condition your soil now, this fall, with our good
materials so your crops pass the low toxin and high nutrient
test next year.
IF YOU DON’T NEED $B.OO PER BUSHEL SOY
BEANS AND 80 BUSHEL PER ACRE LIKE SOME
GET WITH OUR FERTILIZER AND SEED, you are obli
gated to try it anyway and help the poor and unfortunate
victims.
Speltz grain clicks with our one fertilizer with 150 bushels per
acre which can be contracted for $lO per hundred, but pre
pare your soil now for that yield. Our white edible beans are
coming in demand, yielding 50 to 70 bu. per acre to be con
tracted at $l2 per bu. if grown in our fertilizer. What potential
on our program! Free literature.
ORGANIC CENTER
217 S. Railroad Ave., New Holland, PA 17557
* PH, 717-354-7064
Call 7:JO a.m. to about 1 hour longer. Ask For Eli
viable use of open space. The ag
coordinator’s mission will be to
enhance the economic welfare of
farmers in Lancaster County, and
thereby provide spin-off benefits
to the county’s entire agricultural
related business community.
The ag coordinator will be
responsible for identifying the
needs of Lancaster County’s agri
culture and agri-business; deve
loping recommendations for deal
ing with challenges to the agricul
ture industry; and coordinating
and working with all ag develop
ment and ag-related businesses
and agencies within the county;
seeking available local, state and
Backhauling
dangerous to humans in the same
truck.
In addition, H.R. 3386 calls for
an in-depth study of garbage back
hauling in dry or non-food trucks
and outlines criminal penalties for
anyone violating the act. Back
hauling garbage began several
years ago as eastern landfills
reached capacity and cities such as
New York had to look west for
places to dispose of their refuse.
Certain truckers hauling food
began to return west with loads of
garbage bound for landfills rather
than return home empty.
In a letter to Pennsylvania’s
Congressional delegation, PFA
president Eckel said, “At a time
when public awareness of food
safety is great, no delays in pas
sage and implementation of this
legislation can be justified.”
federal funding for the develop
ment, marketing and promotion of
agriculture; developing a working
relationship with area farmers;
and acting as a liaison to agricul
tural agencies and legislators.
Envisioned as a three-year pilot
program, the ag coordinator will
be under the supervision of the
Chamber’s vice president and
director of economic develop
ment, and will serve as a focal
point for much of Lancaster Coun
ty’s agriculture activity.
The Manheim FFA Thanks the buyers and
contending bidders at the
Manheim Farm Show Livestock Sale
Manure management systems to match
your kind of livestock, type of manure
...and economics
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SINCE BEFORE 1910
According to the committee,
Lancaster County is the most pro
ductive non-irrigated farming
county in the United States, and is
surpassed by only ten irrigated
counties. If the county’s more than
5,000 farms were combined into
one corporation, the business
would rank in the Fortune 500,
with sales of $7OO million.
Agriculture is just as important
to Lancaster County’s economy as
manufacturing and tourism,
according to the committee. The
Office Number - 717-264-9588
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Bob Francis Call Tabb Juitui or Mike Hair
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Evenings
loss of farmland in Lancaster
County during the past decade has
raised some serious concerns
about the effect this loss might be
having on the community’s eco
nomy and quality of life.
Participants in the news confer
ence to announce the approval of
an ag coordinator position were
William F. Bash, Chamber chair
man; Kenneth M. Rutt, chairman,
Agriculture Committee; and Jay
W. Irwin, director, Lancaster
County Extension Service.