HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) The Pennsylvania House and guage was read on broader terms and encourages them to move the
Farmers are once again caught Senate have been debating about which encompassed farmers’ use legislation through quickly so far
in the middle, according to the eliminating the 6 percent sales tax of pest-control services. mers are not financially burdened
legislative director of the Pennsyl- on certain consumer items includ- This tax has been repealed in any further," Shambaugh said,
vania Slate Grange. ing pest-control services for the House and Senate and is going “The 6 percent sales tax would
This time it is the unfair taxa- farming. back to the House to concur with not send a family farm into flnan
tion of pest-control services used Grange Legislative Director Senate amendments before going cial min, but when combined with
by farmers which was not the ini- Brenda Shambaugh said the origi- to the governor. all the other taxes and permit fees
tial intent of the record $3.3 bil- nal legislation was meant to tax “The Grange urges our legisla- of farmers, it adds another burden
lion tax increase approved by legi- pesticide use in lawn care service, tors to keep the agricultural to the people who are the back
slators in August. But after it was pgsfd. the lan- exemption in these amendments bone of the Pennsylvania
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economy.”
The Pennsylvania State Grange
represents over 35,000 people.
Originally organized as the first
family farm fraternity, the Grange
today takes an interest in all areas
of rural living including health
care.
Irrigation
Conference
A
Success
ARLINGTON, Va.
Approximately
3,500 people attended
the 1991 Irrigation
Association (IA) Expo
and Technical Confer
ence, which was held at
the Convention Center
in San Antonio, Texas
recently.
The expo, which fea
tured 420 booths and
240 exhibiting compa
nies, is the only interna
tional exposition which
is devoted exclusively
to irrigation products
and services.
Irrigation experts
from industry, govern
ment, and academia pre
sented the latest find
ings of water manage
ment research and other
topics of concern to the
irrigation professional
in 30 different technical
sessions which were
held throughout the
four-day event.
Featured speakers
included Bill Smith,
vice president and
senior quality assurance
manager for Motorola’s
Land Mobile Products
sector; Dr. Don Rice,
director of the Thomas
A. Read Center for Dis
tribution Research and
coordinator for the
industrial distribution
program at Texas A &
M University: David S.
Hefter, manager of eco
nomic studies for DuP
ont in Wilmington, Del.;
and Dev Ogle, a noted
motivational speaker
from California.
During the associa
tion’s annual banquet
and awards presenta
tion, Dr. E. Dale
Threadgill, professor
and chairman of the
division of biological
and agricultural engi
neering, University of
Georgia, was presented
the Irrigation Associa
tion’s 1991 Person of
the Year Award. Phil
Tropeano, president and
founder of Larchmont
Engineering and Irriga
tion, Co., was presented
the association’s 1991
Industry Achievement
Award for contributions
to the development of
the irrigation industry
and its products. Len
Ring, president of Ring
Irrigation Engineering
in Alberta, Canada, was
given the industry’s pre
stigious Crawford Reid
Memorial Award for
promoting the use of
proper irrigation proce
dures and for work
which has resulted in
major achievements in
irrigation outside the
United States.