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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 13 1994-A27
Farm Link
At Ag Progress
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) A new,
nonprofit program run by the state has been set
up as of July 13 to help the agricultural commun
ity continue into the next generation.
It’s called, “Farm Link.”
A booth at the Penn State Ag Progess Days,
August 16,17, and 18, in Rockspring, has been
planned so that anyone can stop in to ask ques
tions and see how much help they can get, at no
cost, to either find a farm, or find a young person
desiring to enter into family farming.
The program is being run through the state
agency, the Center for Rural Pennsylvania
(CRP), located at 212 Locust St., in Harrisburg.
The CRP is a legislative agency, set up by the
slate’s lawmaking bodies to serve as a publicly
funded focal point for rural policy development.
Marion Bowlan, who is a third-generation
family farmer living in Lancaster County, has
been appointed (he Farm Link coordinator and
has been working to educate the agricultural
community about the program, working with
other organizations to establish a working rela
tionship, drafting potential applications and
reviewing working programs in other states to
get ideas on how to make the Pennsylvania prog
ram become helpful, established and efficient.
Bowlan’s position is funded for a year. She
said her specific task is to start up Pennsylvania’s
program, “... setting up a database that can match
people interested with getting out of farming
with people interested in getting into farming.”
The program was established by a large group
of people representing a variety of agricultural
interests, but all with the common desire to stop
the trend of the disappearance of family farms in
the state.
Using the lead set by 23 other states, the group
decided that a Farm Link program should be
managed by a pro-agricultural, non-profit agen
cy that can protect the confidences of interested
people. The Pa. Center for Rural Development,
which is funded by the legislature, was selected
as the most obvious existing agency to house,
and manage the program.
"We want to set up a transitional arrangement
suitable to both parties, with the idea in mind that
the retiring fanner would be eventually bought
out,” Bowlan said.
The program is to offer a variety of services
through other interested organizations, such as
the Pa. Department of Agriculture, the USDA
services, the Farm Credit organization, etc., and
“ ...provide information and education to enter
ing fanners and exiting farmers.” she said.
According to Bowlan, the basic services of the
program, in addition to matching up people with
similar interests and goals, would be to provide
beginning farmers with education on such things
as finances and budgeting and setting realistic
goals, and to provide the outgoing farmer with
education about retirement, etc.
The financial stability of both parties is of tan
tamount concern to all involved, according to
Bowlan. But as well, she said there are lot of
other considerations.
She said in the planning stages are local work
shops on all those issues related to the genera
tional transference of a farm.
Bowlan said that at the Ag Progcss booth, she
will have program information available and she
will field questions.
“I will be on hand all three days to talk to indi
viduals interested in exiting or entering farm
ing,” she said in a statement. “Information
describing the program will be available, as well
as queslionaires for prospective farmers and
farm owners/landholdcrs.”
The booth is to be located on West 11th Street,
near the conservation tent, in the Ag Progress
Tent City at Rockspring. She said the location on
a map is “L.”
The Harrisburg office telephone is (717)
ier
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff