Editor’s Note:
The following article was sub
mitted for publication by Jen
nifer Reed, senior agribusiness
major, Delaware Valley College
at the request of professor. Dr.
John Avery.
Can you imagine yourself
chaperoning an overnight trip to
Washington D.C. with twenty-one
college students? Well our
instructor. Dr. John Avery, did as
part of our Food and Agricultural
Policy class. The objective of the
trip was to spend two days in D.C.
researching a current policy that
we were interested in. Then writ-
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ing a ten to fifteen page paper on
our personal opinion and whether
we would endorse the policy or
pan the policy. We were to
arrange meetings with Senators,
Congressmen, Lobbyists, etc. to
question them on their position
and how they felt about our topics.
To us students it sounded like two
days of misery.
These two days of dreaded tor
ture turned out to be two of the
most educational days of our col
lege career. We researched vari
ous topics, a few examples are:
The Wetlands of New Jersey,
Nutrient Management, Interna
tional Development and Trade
Policy, Effects of Fertilizer and A
Beginning Farmer Bill. We found
everyone to be very helpful and
quite informative. Our two days in
Washington allowed us to sec
future laws, regulations and poli
cies taking form. Also that there
are a lot of potentially good things
happening but we, the voting
public, need to take a more active
role in researching them and then
encouraging our elected represen
tatives to support these policies
and bills that could be of great
benefit to our society.
One of my classmates. Brad
Longenecker, met with his Con
gressman, Mr, Robert Walker, to
discuss the subject of Nutrient
Management. Congressman
Walker stated that he believes
strongly “on helping the young
farmer and giving aid to the ‘small
farmer’.” Congressman Walker is
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a representative for Lancaster Co.
PA which is largely a rural, farm
ing based area.
Another classmate, Jill
Edwards, met with Mr. Ronald
Phillip from The Fertilizer Insti
tute whose organization acts as a
lobbyist. They are concerned with
preserving quality and quantity of
water. Mr. Phillip referred to a
past study of water samples that
found “Two and one half percent
of rural and only one percent of
city water had over the standard
rate of nitrate...”
Again, these are just a few of
the subjects discussed. However it
can openly be declared that there
is a lot of information out there
just waiting to be read and
debated. I, as a graduating Agri
business major from Delaware
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Lancaster Arming, Saturday, May 9, IM2-A2l
Valley College realize how crucial
it is to have good, reliable refer
ence people in the Washington
area who can assist you in finding
the right contacts and information.
If you are a Pennsylvania resi
dent and are interested in contact
ing your Senators for information
on a subject you are concerned
about, the following are their Har
risburg addresses:
Senator Arlen Specter, 1159
Fed. Building, Harrisburg, PA
17101; and Senator Harris Wof
ford, Fed. Square Station, P.O.
Box 55, Harrisburg, PA 17108.
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costs, management, overhead
and profit margin.
Depending on the focus of
the farmer, the system might
include crop management,
nutrient management, erosion
and sedimentation control and
pest management
A number of other work
shops, ranging in topic from
abused men and women to
recreational opportunities with
the Rails to Trails program,
were also held for members’
benefit
Legislators from almost
every county in the state, sena
tors and representatives, and
also some federal representa
tives, such as George Gekas,
attended the banquet and sat
with constituent members to
discuss, over dinner, issues of
concern and to get to know each
other better.
‘This banquet is our way of
saying thank you to the legisla
ture for the hind work they do,”
said Brenda Shambaugh,
Grange legislative director. “It
also give our members an ideal
opportunity to discuss one-on
one the problems facing them.
Shambaugh addressed the
crowd also, covering the
Grange’s stance on several
issues.
Included were such topics as
nutrient management legisla
tion which the Grange supports
for the protection of farmers
and consumers alike.
The Grange also continues to
support a bottle bill which
would create a return to the
bottle deposit. The purpose is to
make empties valuable and pro
vide an initiative for their clea
nup and proper disposal.
A college loan forgiveness
program as an incentive for vet
erinary and agriculture gradu
ates to stay in Pennsylvania to
practice in rural areas, rather
than leaving the stale for better
paying jobs.
According to Shambaugh,
the Grange wants to see the pas
sage of HB 1492, which is a rur
al leadership development
program to help elevate the
abilities of rural people to take
over local leadership.
In addition to other legisla
tive measures supported by the
Grange. Shambaugh said the
continued cuts of state funds to
agriculture is of extreme con
cern. Of particular concern, she
said, is the fact that no appropri
ations were proposed for the
School of Veterinary Science at
Grange