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CAMP HILL (Cumberland
Co.) The Pennsylvania Far
mers’ Association (PFA) has
called for the lowering of Pennsyl
vania’s deer population to Pen
nsylvania Game Commission
wildlife management goal levels
and for new Game Commission
programs to help fanners suffer
ing deer damage.
PFA made its recommendations
recently during testimony before
the Game Commission.
Ellis Crowl, a York County
dairyman and chairman of PFA’s
Wildlife Damage Control Com
mittee, said, “I think we would all
have to agree that a (Game Com
mission wildlife) management
plan which allows for more than
40,000 deer to be slaughtered on
the highways of the common
wealth annually, and a plan which
allows for millions of dollars of
crop losses annually, is not a plan
with which we should be proud.”
The PFA spokesman said the
farm organization is eagerly
awaiting results of a pilot “hots-
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Bedford, Sphuylkill, Crawford
and Indiana counties during the
regular antlered deer season last
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Crowl said PFA believes such a
program “has potential in areas,
where farms are surrounded by
lands accessible to hunters.” If it is
successful, PFA will support the
expansion of the program to other
counties, “where a legitimate deer
crop damage problem can be
demonstrated,” Crowl said.
“However, in areas where
farms are surrounded by lands
inaccessible to adequate numbers
of hunters, other measures must
also be attempted,” Crowl said.
“The Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association continues to strongly
request the commission consider
some type of program to allow for
permitted hunters to assist in the
harvest of crop damaging deer,”
PFA’s position is that a program
could be devised to meet the needs
of not only farmers, but also
organized sportsmen groups and
the Game Commission.
“In the event individual prog
rams are not successful in reduc
ing wildlife crop damage on
farms,” Crawl said, “PFA policy
supports the development of a
crop damage compensation fund.”
Crovyl said that eligible dairy
fanners in Wisconsin received up
to $5,000 in 1990 to pay for crop
damage losses.
“This effectively reduces the
Wisconsin producer’s cost of milk
production, l and promotes unfair
competition. Either reduce my
damage, or allow me to produce
milk on a level playing field With
my competitors by compensating
my losses, as Wisconsin farmers
are being compensated,” Crawl
said.
Crawl also expressed concern
for the farmers suffering crop
damage due to an increased popu
lation in Canada geese.
While applauding Game Com
mission programs to lengthen sea
sons and bag limits in an effort to
reduce populations of nuisance
resident geese, PFA said the Game
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
when it issues depredation permits
to control bird damage.
PFA also recommended the
opening of the fall turkey hunting
season in southwestern Pennsyl
vania where farmers are being
‘overrun” by turkeys.
“It is not our intention to con
demn the Pennsylvania Game
Commission,” Crawl said. “We
oelieve you are doing an excellent
job in protecting the great wildlife
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ond our means.”
Crowl said that when it comes
to the problem of deer damage
crops, farmers, “feel like, at limes,
we are being placed in the same
category as other endangered
species.
“As we move through this next
year, we hope to sec real progress
in reducing the degree of wildlife
crop damage,” Crowl said.
PFA is a voluntary, statewide
farm organization which repre
sents 23,189 member families in
54 county associations.
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ALBANY, N.Y. Dairy farmers in the
milkshed will vote on the proposed amended
New York-New Jersey Federal Milk Marketing
Order (Order No. 2) in a mail referendum ending
at 11:59 p.m., Feb. 18.
The amended order was contained in a final
decision, on all federal milk orders, issued on
Jan. 19, by the United States Department of Agri
culture. It is based on the national hearing held in
September, October, and November 1990.
Ronald C. Pearce, referendum agent, said all
dairy farmers who delivered milk to pool plants
and bulk tank units in April 1992 will be eligible
to vote. A producer who is not a cooperative
member will vote by individual ballot. A produc
er who is a cooperative member may vote collec
tively through the cooperative (if it has chosen
this voting procedure) or may vote by individual
ballot.
If the order as proposed to be amended is not
approved by at least two-thirds of those casting
ballots, the New York-New Jersey Federal Milk
Marketing Order will be terminated.
The issues involved in the referendum include
classification of milk uses and how reconstituted
milk will be priced when made from nonfat dry
milk or concentrated milk produced under an
other order.
Briefly stated, as amended, all federal milk or
ders will provide for three uniform classifica
tions of milk use. Currently, a few orders have
two classes of use, while most of the orders spe
cify three classes, and some classification differ
ences exist among the orders that have three
classes.
Concentrated milk (milk that has had some of
the water removed) that is shipped in bulk form
from a plant regulated under one order to a
plant(s) regulated under another order will now
be treated the same as any other shipment of a
bulk fluid milk product between such plants.
If such milk product is distributed as a labeled
reconstituted fluid milk product by the receiving
plant, the Class I use will be passed back to the
originating order.
Currently, if such milk is assigned to Class I
uses, the receiving market imposes on the hand
ler that made the reconstituted milk a compensa
tory payment for the benefit of local producers.
Also, if a reconstituted product made from
nonfat dry milk that was manufactured from pro
ducer milk under another federal order is distri
buted as a labeled reconstituted fluid milk prod
uct, the handler may elect to make a payment to
the market where the nonfat dry milk was made.
Such an option does not currently exist.
The changes to Federal Order No. 2 also arc
applicable to New York State Order No. 126 and
New Jersey State Order No. 57-3. These concur
rent state orders are essentially identical to the
Federal order.
The final decision and the ballots will be plac
ed in the mail soon. The referendum agent urges
all eligible producers who are not voting collec
tively and who do not receive a ballot to contact
the Referendum Agent at One Columbia Circle,
Albany. N.Y. 12203-5i56i.