Junior Shows Highlight
(Contlnuad from Pag* A 24)
Supra ma Champion ■ Curt StocKdala.
Raaarva Supramo Champion ■ Braa
Taggart.
SHOWMANSHIP
Senior Dlv.: Bret Taggart, Alyssa Myen.
Intarmadlata: Chad Millar, Heather Fuhls.
Junior: Sara Campbell, Megan Fuhli.
1995 PJCA BEEF EXPO
STEER SHOW
data 1 -Lightweight: 1. Caeey High, 2.
Robert Faber, 3. Adam, Wolfe.
Claes 2 - Lightweight: 1. Shawn Walti
myer, 2. Matt Stover, 3. Megan Souder.
Clase 3 • Lightweight: 1. Casey High, 2.
Chad Miller, 3. Tad Francis.
Champion Lightweight • Casey High.
Reserve Champion Lightweight • Casey
High.
Clase 1 - Middleweight: 1. Megan Fuhls,
2 Kevin Campbell, 3. Alissa Myers.
Class 2 - Middleweight: 1. Justin Fuhls,
2 Nathan Clayoomb, 3. Eric Berkheimer.
Class 3 • Middleweight: 1. Sara Camp
bell, 2. Justin Claycomb, 3. Curt Stockdale.
Champion Middleweight • Justin Fuhls.
Reserve Champion Middleweight - San
Campbell.
Class 1 - Heavyweight; 1. Heather Fuhls,
2. Brea Taggart, 3. Melissa Nailor.
Class 2 - Heavyweight: 1. David New
phar, 2. Jessica Martin, 3. Grant Coleman.
Pa. Farm
WASHINGTON. D.C. The
leader of the Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau this week urged Pennsyl
vania’s congressmen and U.S.
senators to support bills aimed at
protecting property rights from
government intrusion and stop
ping costly and unnecessary regu
lations.
Keith Eckel, president of the fecting agriculture.
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, spoke Pennsylvania Farm Bureau is a
about concerns during a breakfast voluntary farm organization
USDA Names Oertly Pa.
State Conservationist
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Janet Oertly, originally of
Pennsylvania, has returned to take
the top job in the state office of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Natural Resource Conservation
Service (NRCS).
Formerly called the USDA Soil
Conservation Service, the agency
was'renamcd after reorganization
of die USDA in the fall. The name
change was also made to better
reflect the mission of the agency,
and the fact that several programs
were transferred to its purview,
including the USDA Wetlands
Reserve Program and the Forest
Stewardship Program.
Oerdy, originally from John
sonburg, in Elk County, has been
named to be the next state
conservationist a new title for
the top administrative position for
the NRCS.
The position was left vacant
with the January retirement of
Richard Duncan, who retired from
the agency after 32 years, serving
six years as its chief.
Will Hoff showed the champion of all other breeds, a
Shorthorn.
Class 3 - Heavyweight: 1. Will Hoff, 2. Nawphsr.
Carl Detwiler, 3. Andrea Myers. Supreme Champion - Justin Fuhls.
Champion Heavyweight-Heather Fuhls. Reserve Supreme Champion • Casey
Reserve Supreme Champion • David
Bureau Members Talk To
meeting with lawmakers and
about 200 farmers participating in
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau’s
Washington Legislative Tour held.
March 15-16. The fanners had
visited their congressmen and sen
ators the day before to convey
Farm Bureau’s position on regula
tory reform and other issues af-
In her new position, Oertly is to
oversee the agency which employs
about 200 people and which has a
main office in Harrisburg, four
regional offices and 70 field and
special project offices.
She began her career in 1979 as
a soil scientist in Faulkton S.D.,
after receiving a bachelor’s degree
in geology from Thiel College, in
Greenville, and a master’s degree
in agronomy from Penn State
University.
She worked as a soil scientist in
various locations in South Dakota,
and then headed east to Maryland
with a promotion to area conserva
tionist. Another career advance
ment came with a move to the Mid
west to Indiana where she became
a district conservationist.
She was promoted again in the
meantime to her current position as
an area conservationist, a post she
will leave to take the Pennsylvania
state conservationist job on March
20.
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which represents 26,167 member
families in 54 county units. It is
affiliated with the nation’s largest
general farm organization, the
4.4-million member American
Farm Bureau Federation.
“American Farm Bureau esti
mates that compliance with feder
al regulations is costing farmers
from $lB to $2O billion dollars a
year,’’ Eckel told the lawmakers.
“That’s 3.5 percent of our net in
come ... and does not include the
cost of state regulations.” Eckel
said 55 different sets of laws and
regulations have been identified at
the federal level with which farm
ers must now be in compliance.
“What does Farm Bureau want
from Congress?” Eckel asked.
“First, we want you to hold some
field hearings out where we live,
not in Washington, D.C. We want
you to learn from ordinary .citizens
who cannot afford to come to
Washington to tell you how
they’ve been smothered by exces
sive regulations.”
Farm Bureau is urging passage
of H.R. 450 which would put a
moratorium on new regulations
except those affecting human
health and safety. While regula
tions are on hold. Congress should
undertake real regulatory reform,
Eckel said. “We need to apply a
cost/bencfit analysis to regula
tions, to make sure that the cost of
a regulation to government and
business does not vastly exceed
any benefits it would provide. We
Justin Fuhls, Stahlstown, won grand champion steer
with this middleweight steer.
Washington
also need the use of good science
on regulations proposed to reduce
risks to make sure the dangers be
ing prevented are real and not hy
pothetical.”
In addition, Eckel said, “We
also must have built-in protection
for private property rights in any
regulations coming out of Wash
ington. Finally, the federal
government has to redirect its
policy from the overuse of the re
gulatory ‘stick’ in reaching goals
to the use of the ‘carrot’ of incen
tives for agriculture and private
industry.”
Eckel also voiced support for
legislation aimtti at protecting
property rights “The Fifth Amend
ment’s ‘takings’ clause, based on
James Madison’s belief that prop
erty rights are fundamental and in
violable, bars the government
from taking private property
‘without just compensation’,”
Eckel said. Recent U.S. Supreme
Court rulings, such as Lucas v.
South Carolina Coastal Council
and Dolan v. City of Tigard, have
made the high court an ally of
property rights advocates. “The
Supreme Court is saying that
governments cannot ride rough
shod over property owners,” Eck
el said.
“Yet,” he added, “with the ad
vent of extensive environmental
regulation in the past two decades,
regulators and die lower courts
have increasingly abandoned the
principal that property owners
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have the fundamental right to use
and pursue profit from their land,
absent harm to others.”
Farm Bureau is supporting
property rights piotecion legisla
tion which was recently passed by
the House H.R. 925, approved on
March 3 by a vote of 277-148,
would require federal agencies to
compensate private property own
ers for federal actions that reduce
the value of any section of their
property by 20 percent or more.
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quired if the regulatory action was
undertaken to protect the public
health or safety, to prevent dam
age to other specific property, or
the federal action was in agree
ment with state law.
Eckel also expressed disap
pointment over the defeat of the
balanced budget amendment in
the Senate, even though both sena
tors Specter and Santorum sup
ported the measure. Farm Bureau
strongly believes Congress must
take action to balance the federal
budget
The budget should be balanced
through spending restraints and
cutbacks not tax hikes. All pro
grams, including all entitlements,
should be considered for spending
controls.
“Yes, these are exciting times,”
Eckel told the lawmakers. “There
are some really tough decisions
facing us. Your vote is sought. We
want you to support us. We look
forward to working with you.”
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