30 YEARS AGO -Roger Gundlach, a recent gra duate of the University of Wiscon sin, has been named to the post of director of Member Relations for the Southeastern Penn: Artificial Breeding Cooperative. He will work in the Lancaster office. -Members of the Red Rose Beef Club will have an opportunity to study the feeding and management practices of fellow members, as well as size up their competition when the club holds its annual tour on Aug. 3. Parents, friends and neighbors of club members are invited to join in the tour scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. at the home of club lead er Mylin R. Good, Manheim Rl. The tour will stop at the follow ing farms during the morning: Mary Sue, James, and John Henry Hess, Manheim Rl; Marlin Cassel, Manheim Rl; Larry. Bruce and Gerald Kulp, Manheim R 2; Gary and John Lefever, Manheim R 4; Arlene and Ronald Long, Man heim R 4; Richard and Robert Hosier, Manheim R 4 and Glenn, Joanne and Darlene Foreman, Manheim R 3. During the afternoon the follow ing stops will be made: Alan Shenenberger, Manheim R 4; Dar lene Becker, Terry Petticoffer, THIS WEEK Gary Kreiner, Jacob Long and Bil ly Hackman, all of Elizabethtown R 3. -The top cow and calf brought $475 at a farm sale near New Pro vidence on Saturday, July 23. At the Charles C. Mueller sale of dairy cattle at New Providence Rl, the top grade Holstein changed hands at $420. -A purebred Landrace boar pig was awarded to Earl Fisher, swine herdsman, of the Stauffer Home stead Farms, for his first place win in the judging contest at the annual field day sponsored by the Lancas ter County Swine Producers Association. The July 23 event at the farm of James Martin, East Earl, attracted over 50 swine producers and their families. -Over 400 head of artificially sired dairy cattle will parade before the judges at the Southeast ern Pennsylvania Artificial Breed ers’ Cooperative show next Week. Judges for the event, scheduled to get under way at 7 p.m. Aug. 3, with the judging of Jersey, Ayr shire and Brown Swiss cattle, will be Gordon Cairns, dean of agricul ture, University of Maryland, and George Newlin, manager of Hill girt Farms, Chadds Ford. MAD LANCASTER FARMING FOR COMPLETE AND UP-TO-DATE MARKET REPORTS PFA Defines Position On Farm Bill (Continued from Pago A 1) provisions for wheat and feed grains. The loan rates approved by the House Committee may not al low adequate competitiveness of U.S. commodities. We favor con tinuing the loan rate formulas used in the 198 S farm bill. We SUPPORT an amendment to limit planting of non-program crops on flexible base acres. Only program crops, oilseeds, hay, for ages and experimental use com modities should be permitted. We OPPOSE amendments to remove Senate bill language re quiring the Secretary to eliminate cosmetic standards for fruit and vegetables. Pesticide use is not in tended exclusively for cosmetic purposes. This reinforces the no tion that consumers are placed at risk by current production and marketing practices. We OPPOSE attempts to dis qualify producers from participat ing in farm programs based upon income or amount of sales from the farm. Arbitrary measures of income or wealth do not accurate ly correlate with profitability. We OPPOSE requiring con servation compliance on all farm operations using financing from the Farm Credit System or loans eligible for pooling under Farmer Mac. Farm Credit borrowers should not be subject to conserva- tion compliance if he or she is not a participant in the farm program. We OPPOSE efforts to require a strict standard value to deter- mine the acceptability of compli ance plans or for land in expiring Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). We OPPOSE the loss of base if a farmer is out of compliance. In some areas of the state, achieving a strict standard is virtually impos sible without incurring high costs to construct conservation devices or taking the land completely out of production. We OPPOSE pesticide record keeping requirements unless such records are confidential, accessi ble only to the primary state pesti cide regulatory agency after a showing of cause. Record keeping must be viewed as confidential business information. We OPPOSE amendments in tended to restructure several com modity programs, including sugar, peanuts, honey, wool, mohair and dairy. Tlie dairy question is critical to producers in Pennsylvania. How to maintain the balance of supply and demand, and continue a mar ket-oriented national dairy pro gram will be the issue. Obviously, the current law is working, but se veral factors, including QST, re turn of buyout participants and in dividual producer decisions could affect production in the future. We SUPPORT alternative methods of calculating support prices to shift emphasis from milk fat to a milk solids basis. Govern- ment purchases for federal use and programs should not be used in calculation of surplus. The five billion pound trigger threshold for support price adjustments should be determined on a total solid ba sis. We believe Congress should transfer the responsibility and cost of USDA’s nutrition programs from CCC to the Food and Nutri tion Service, and USDA purchas ing the products needed for the nu- Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 28,1990-A25 trition programs and all other federal government needs should be on a bid basis from commercial sources. We OPPOSE the Heinz-Harkin amendment which would deny farm program benefits to farmers who receive water from federal re clamation projects. Many western family farm operations could be adversely affected and it would discourage participation in the CRP. Concern is also expressed with the proposal to eliminate the crop insurance program. The Pennsylvania Farmers’ Association and Farm Bureau have a vital interest in supporting a new farm bill that continues to promote competitiveness of our products, provides market orienta tion in the use of resources, in al lowing producers to make market ing and production decisions, re quires minimal government stock levels and protects farm income. We believe the new farm policy should continue to move in the general direction set by the 1985 farm bill with certain modifica tions and improvements.
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