Junior Livestock Sale
MILLPORT (Potter Cp.) . Cory Miles and weighing 203
Recently, the Potter County Junior pounds, was sold for $548.10 to
Livestock Sale drew a record Hatfield Quality Meats,
crowd, buyers, and average prices At the lamb show, grand champ
here at the Potter County ion went to Josh Shelley. The
Fairgrounds. lamb, weighing 125 pounds, was
In the beef. show, the sold for $562.50 to First National
1, 065-pound grand champion was Bank, Port Allegany. The
exhibited by Cory Miles and sold 107-pound reserve, shown by Bar
for $1.118.25 to First City Nation- ry Snyder, was sold for $454.75 to
al Bank of Genesee and Ulysses. Charles and Associates Realtors.
Reserve, weighing 1,155 pounds Total sale, including rabbits,
and shown by Kellie Lane, was was $24,250.15. Also sold was a
sold for $1,224.30 to Northeastern gallon of supreme champion milk
Farm Credit in a hand-painted milk pail by
At the swine show, Andy Cross- Debbie Kibbe. The milk went for
ley showed the grand champion $5OO to Don Gilman, president of
hog, which weighed 218 pounds Middlebury Milk Co-Op.
and sold for $741.20 to Jeff Carts, Auctioneers were Jerry Pirrung
surveyor. The reserve, shown by and Si Pepperman.
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Survey Shows Farmers Fear
Environmental Litigation
WASHINGTON, D.C.
According to survey results
released by the Farm Progress
Companies, 90 percent of farmers
and ranchers surveyed fear envir
onmental litigation. The level of
concern overshadowed responses
to questions asked about farming
practices and programs, environ
mental policies, and social and
economic issues.
In the nationwide survey, far
mers and ranchers were asked to
agree or disagree with the state
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ment: "I am concerned about
potential environmental litiga
tion.” Of the 2.530 respondents, 90
percent strongly agreed or agreed.
Farm Progress Companies mail
ed 16,327 questionnaires to far
mers and ranchers on August 3
with a IS.S percent response rate.
The survey was targeted only to
producers who rely on farming as
their primary source of income.
The results of the Farm Progress
Companies survey coincide with
the results of a recent poll con
ducted by the National Association
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of Stale Departments of Agricul
ture (NASDA), where 51 percent
of fanners and ranchers polled said
they fear environmental laws
either a great deal or a good
amount Only 13 percent felt
environmental laws had no impact
on their ability to produce.
In the NASDA poll, fanhers and
ranchers in the states of Indiana,
lowa, Kansas and Mississippi
clearly supported congressional
efforts to include the concept of
voluntary agricultural resource
management planning
(VARMP) in the 1995
Farm Bill. The data,
compiled from the
results of four separate
polls conducted August
28 through September
1, 1995 by the polling
company of Washing
ton, D.C., showed 74
percent of the farmers
and ranchers believed it
to be important to
include VARMPs in the
1995 farm legislation.
In each of the four
states, 300 farmers and
ranchers were inter
viewed by telephone.
The margin of error for
each state is plus or
minus 4.7 percent with a
95 percent confidence
level.
As proposed for the
Farm Bill, VARMPs
would set die stage for
farmers and ranchers to
protect themselves from
environmental litigation
and regulation, the two
things they appear to
fear the most The NAS
DA poll showed that
protection from envir
onmental regulation
was the most important
factor farmers and
f ranchers would consider
in determining whether
to develop and imple
ment a voluntary agri
cultral resource man
agement plan.
The House of Rep
resentatives over
whelmingly voted in
favor of the VARMP
concept 290 to 122
during consideration
of H.R. 961, the reau
thorization of the Clean
Water Act (CWA).
“The survey results
clearly show that far
mers and ranchers want
the protection afforded
in H.R. 961. They gen
erally agree with House
Transportation and
Infrastructure Commit
tee Chairman Bud Shus
ter (R-PA), who said
during the House floor
debate on the CWA that
the VARMP concept in
the clean water bill
should be defined in the
Farm Bill,” said Mark
C. Nestlen, NASDA
director of legislative
and regulatory affairs.
“Shuster said, ‘we look
to the Committee on
Agriculture of this
House to define
(VARMP) in the farm
bill.’ According to the
survey results, farmers
and ranchers are also
looking to the two agti
cultre committees to
authorize the VARMP
concept.”
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