Surrounded by representatives of supporting state agei js ai orgai
state Secretary of Agriculture Boyd Wolff signs his name to a memoradum of under
standing between all agencies involved with regulating and supporting agriculture
that they will be cooperative and not contradictory a One Plan program. Smiling is
Lambert Hood, dean of the PSU College of Agricultural Sciences, who was the first to
sign.
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Agricultural Leaders
Sign Memorandum
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
ROCKSPRING (Centre
Co.) Pennsylvania’s agricul
tural leaders on Tuesday signed a
memorandum of understanding to
take effect immediately to operate
under a one-plan-per-farm beau
racracy in an effort to eliminate
waste, confusion, frustration, and
unneccessary travel, delays and
repetition of work for all involved.
Immediately following a PSD
Ag Progress Days’ meeting of the
Penn State College of Agricultural
Sciences Alumni Society (CAAS)
in the Rockspring facility’s Agri
culture Special Events Building,
leaders of the major farming orga
nizations, and federal, state and
local agencies sat down to sign a
memorandum of understanding
between all involved.
The memorandum calls for each
agency to cooperate with other
agencies while attempting to fulfill
its particular mission.
According to a news release
from Barry Frantz, project coordi
nator for the Pennsylvania Associ
ation of Conservation Districts,
“The memorandum calls for
groups to work together to elimi
nate conflicts and duplication
between different programs,
change burdensome rules, regula
tions, policies and procedures,
share information and accept com
mon technical standards.
“The One Plan concept has been
the subject of a two-year pilot pro
ject which will finish on Sept. 30
this fall,” said Frantz in the
statement
“Conservation districts in
Lehigh, Northumberland and York
counties, and later in Centre. Erie
and Union counties, coordinated
efforts of multi-organizational
teams which worked with fanners
to develop coordinated, integrated
management plans.
‘Tanners in the pro
ject recommended that
agencies and organiza
tions continue the One
Plan program after the
pilot project was over in
an effort to further
improve programs and .-
services.” according to
Frantz.
I On Tuesday, signing
[the agreement were
Lamartine Hood, dean
I of the PSU College of
Agricultural Sciences.
Boyd Wolff, state sec
retary of agriculture,
Caren Glotflety, deputy
secretary for water man
agement for the DER,
Greg Grabowicxz, rep-
I resenting the state Game
Commission. Cheryl
I Cook, state director of
I the Farmer’s Home
I Administration, Rex
I Wright, representing the
I USDA’s Agricultural
I! Stabilization and Con-
I I servation Service. Dick
I Duncan, state conserva
tionist for the USDA
Soil Conservation Ser
vice, Gordon Hiller,
I state master of the Pen-
I nsylvania State Grange;
I Tim Bowser, executive
I director fo the Pennsyl-
I vania Association for
I Sustainable Agricul-
I turc; and Francis
I McGrail, president of
I the Pennsylvania Agro-
I nomic Products
I Association.
Other agencies which
have indicated an inten
tion also to sign the
document include the
Pennsylvania Associa
tion of Conservation
Districts (which spon
sored the one plan pilot
project), the state Fish
and Boat Commission,
and the United States
Fish and Wildlife
Service.
A representative of