KILE Posts Swine Show Results Landrace Breeding Swine Class 53 Champion Gilt. Own ed by Alan & Mike Ray, Whiteford, MD. Shown Is Alan Ray. .ie Class 58 Champion Boar. Owned by LeLand Mapes & Family, Unlonville Center, OH. Shown is LeLand Mapes. ipt Cheryl Bennecoff, Kutztown, PA & shown by Cheryl. Sheep Checkoff Legislation Passes DENVER, Colo. The Sheep Promotion, Research and infor mation Act of 1994 recently passed the U.S. House and Senate, setting in motion a checkoff for the promotion of lamb and wool. “This is the first step of many to empower this industry to create a more profitable future,” said Pierce Miller, president of the American Sheep Industry Associ ation. Miller said the legislation’s passage capped more than six months of work by Congress and Association leaders. The bill faced strong opposition in Wash ington, D.C., from some members of the textile industry and some legislators who ' wanted to see major changes in all checkoff leg islation. Miller said the industry’s vic tory is credited to a strong com mitment of Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), House Agriculture Committee Chairman Kika de la Garza (D-TX), Republican Whip Sen. Alan Simpson (R-WY), and ranking member congressman Pat Roberts (R-KS). “These legisla tors personally led the efforts to pass the legislation,” Miller said. There were 18 original cosponsors in the Senate and 23 cosponsors in the House. The bill passed both Senate and House by unanimous consent and will now go to Presi dent Clinton for his signature. The legislation will allow indi viduals involved in the sheep industry nationwide to vote in ref erendum to put the checkoff on lamb and wool into effect. The referendum will likely be in late 1995, according to sheep industry leaders. USDA will announce the date in the coming months as part of the rule-making process. The checkoff would assess sales of lamb and wool, both domestic and imported, and would replace the industry’s pro motion program tost with the phase-out of the Wool Act in 1996. Lamb would be assessed at 1 cent per pound, domestic wool at 2 cents per pound (grease basis), and imported wool top and textiles at 2 cents per pound (clean basis). “The inclusion of imported products is a strong and decisive move by the industry to better Owned by Brian L. Lake. Spotted Breeding Swine Class 75 Grand Champion Gilt. Owned by Redding Spot Farm, Kenton, OH. Shown is Rex E. Redding. i y Yorkshire Breeding Swine Class 86 Champion Gilt. Own ed and shown by Jennifer Fllnchbaugh, York, PA. finance our promotion efforts by including all beneficiaries in the U.S. promotion efforts,” Miller said. “We secured a good, solid bill to authorize a checkoff for the industry. We were able to secure the majority of provisions set forth by the board in the final Pesticide Disposal Program WESTMINSTER, (Chester Co.) The Pennsylvania Department of agriculture is in the third year of a program to dis pose of canceled, suspended, or unusable pesticides of farms. Chester County has been selected in 1995 to participate in this pro gram along with Berks County and several others. Chemsweep is designed for farmers, nurseries, greenhouses, mushroom producers, and Christ mas tree growers. Anyone who produces an agricultural com modity is eligible. Pesticide deal ers are not included in this pro gram, or any product labeled for homeowner use. This program is free to all eligible participates. It bill.” About $6 million annually is projected to be raised by the import assessments, adding to the domestic producers’ contribution of about $7 million for a total of approximately $l3 million annu ally for lamb and wool promotion. is being paid for by the chemical registration fees paid to the state. Any pesticide with' an EPA registration number or prior UDSA ID number will be accept ed. This includes silvex, 2,4,5,-T and dinoseb. PDA will accept unlabeled material as long as it can be identified as a pesticide by the PDA pesticide laboratory. The more information you can supply about the unknown, the better chance of identifying the prbduct. Please do not mix or transport the pesticides. This will complicate the process. The prod ucts are more easily and inexpen sively disposed of properly if they are kept separate from one Estate Planning Seminar Set ELLICOTT CITY. Md. Family traditions are practiced and passed down through genera tions. Attention needs to be paid to the property and possessions that accompany those traditions. The family farm, where everyone gathers for holidays, will it be in the family when the farmer has gone to meet his maker? Will the agribusiness be able to continue without interruption if one of the principal owners should die unexpectedly? Property values in the Washing ton corridor have escalated so much that land once purchased for $2OO an acre could be worth $20,000 or $200,000 an acre. Estate taxes would be due to the Internal Revenue Service within nine months of the land’s transfer. The Maryland Cooperative Extension Service and the Farm Credit banks are offering farm, woodland, greenhouse and nursery owners an opportunity to learn about estate planning at two upcoming seminars. The seminar will be offered at two locations. The first will be December 2 at The Columbia Inn in Columbia and December 3 at the Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel, Hagerstown. The program will begin at 9 a.m. and finish at 4 p.m. Each preregistered participant will receive an estate planning workbook. The registration fee includes the workbook and lunch. Individual registration is $4O while a couple or partnership is $75. Checks should be made payable to: Extension Advisory Council and sent to Ag Seminar Series, c/o CES Carroll County Office, 700 Agricultural Center, Westminster, MD 21157. Early registration is encouraged because space is lim ited to 100 participants. Seminar brochures are avail able from your local cooperative extension office. Phone numbers ate listed under county govern ment headings in the blue pages of the telephone directory. The checkoff proposal would create a sheep industry promotion board with members appointed by the secretary of agriculture from nominations of certified state organizations. Appointees will include lamb feeder and importer representatives. Under Way another. Registration forms for this program will be sent to Chester County participants in several weeks. If you do not get a form, please call th& Chester County extension office at (610) 696- 3500 k and request a copy. Please do not photocopy the form because they are color coded according to the county. Deadline for registration is December 31. Pesticides will be picked up in late 1995 from their storage loca tion by a hazardous waste dispos al company through PDA. For more information, contact the Chester County extension office at (610) 696-3500.
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