02-Lancntw Fanning, Saturday, July 31.1993
VERNON ACHENBACH, JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
MYERSTOWN (Lebanon
Co.) Announced Republican
gubernatorial candidate Tom
Ridge has called for the division of
the state Department of Environ
mental Resources into two distinct
cabinet-level agencies.
Ridge has been touring the state
in recent weeks visiting local GOP
party members drumming up sup
port and attempting to increase his
name recognition some politi
cal pundits have referred to him as
the “most well-known unknown”
candidate.
Ridge will apparently be going
up against a field of candidates for
the job that Gov. Robert Casey is
no longer eligible to hold, having
served two terms.
Last week, prior to a golf-outing
fundraising event at a Lebanon
public golf course, he stopped in
Myerstown at the American Leg
ion to meet with potential suppor
ters and to discuss local issues of
concern.
Among the things he outlined
was a government that served its
constituents, a bureaucracy with a
face and that had as a mission help
ing people solve problems.
In that light, he discussed divid
ing DER into two seperate
entities a Department of Envir
onmental Protection which would
Announces Rates
LIONVILLE (Ches
ter Co.) Loan and
purchase rates for Ches
ter and Delaware Coun
ty’s 1993 com, grain
sorghum, and soybean
crops were recently
announced by the Agri
cultural Stabilization
and Conservation Ser
vice (ASCS).
In Chester County,
the rates are $1.91 per
bushel for com, $2.96
per hundredweight for
sorghum, and $5.12 per
bushel for soybeans. In
Delaware County, the
rates are $1.92 per
bushel for com, $2.96
per hundredweight for
sorghum, and $5.12 per
bushel for soybeans.
ASCS official Hollis
D. Baker said the loan
rates reflect changes in
the national average
price support rates for
the crops, as well as
adjustments for location
and transportation costs.
“These adjustments
were limited to a three
percent change except
for soybeans, in addi
tion to the change in the
price support rate for
these crops.”
Price support loans
provide operating capi
tal for fanners, enabling
them to hold their crop
off the market and bene
fit from price increases
that often come after
harvest
Copies of the loan
and purchase rates may
be obtained from the
Chester/Dclaware
County ASCS office, or
by writing to the Cotton,
Grain and Rice Pride
Support Division,
USDA-ASCS, P.0.80x
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be concerned with regulation and
enforcement; and a Department of
Conservation and Natural Resour
ces, which would be concerned
with the maintainance of the state
park system and state forests.
Additionally, he said that a new
attitude must be developed in order
to change the role of DER from
public adversary to public partner.
During a Tuesday telephone
interview from his Washington
D.C. office. Ridge said what his
proposal means for agriculture in
Pennsylvania is what it would
mean for other businesses and
industry: DER would not cease to
monitor the health of the state's
environmental resources, but it
would be more cooperative in find
ing solutions instead of merely
decreeing an activity illegal.
The specifics of his proposal are
not worked out the logistics,
transition and implementation of a
plan to dismantle perhaps the
largest state agency in terms of
responsibilities and to put into
place effective sibling agencies.
However, the concept of split
ting up DER has received much
support from various sectors of the
community, including some previ
ous DER secretaries.
Projected effects are equally
conceptual.
However, several people who
met Ridge have commented on his
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On Tuesday, Ridge said he is
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relying on input from people he
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many opportunities to leant more
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