A3Hmcamr Firming, Saturday, November il, '1995 Ag Dept, PMMB Reach Agreement On 1995 Farm Bill HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) The Agriculture Department and the Pennsylvania Milk Mar keting Board (PMMB) announced they have reached agreement on key dairy proposals for the federal 1995 Farm Bill. In an unprecedented joint state ment, Agriculture Secretary Charles C. Brosius and Leon H. Wilkinson, PMMB chairman, said (Continued from Pago A 34) knocked it down. Other causes may be inadequate structural connections the load will follow the load path to the ground and find the weakest link and break there. Royer said that when following truss bracing design, he refers to the standard. HIB-91, available from the Truss Plate Institute. To receive a copy, contact the Insti tute at 583 D’Onofiio Dr.. Suite 200, Madison, WI 53719, (608) 833-5900. Royer emphasized the importance of prop er storage of trusses (either completely upright or completely flat on a level, solid sur face) and proper hand ling of trasses (with the use of temporary brac ing as the construction is taking place). Tempor ary bracing helps to avoid wind damage on the permanent truss structure. Permanent bracing, the builder’s responsibility, should be a part of the final building design. Permanent bracing is used on the top chord, the bottom chord (ceil ing), and webbing. A combination of diagonal and lateral bracing is used on the top and bot tom chords. A series of X-bracing is used in the webs. In the HIB-91 stan dard, taken into account is the wind load (from 70 mph in southeast Pennsylvania and inland) and up to 110 mph near the shorelines. Snow load ranges from 25-30 pounds per square foot in this area, and higher when farther inland. Often, township building codes for farm buildings don’t require adequate additional truss bracing. But build ing codes may be neces sary to ensure against possible collapse from wind and storm loads. In the final design, factors such as unba lanced loading (from drifting snow) need to be taken into account on truss design. Also, load path must be complete all the way to the prop erly designed footing. Those who want to put up a building should follow common sense, according .to Royer. “With a little bit of experience and common sense, you can pretty' they have agreed upon several ma jor points which they will seek to have included in the farm bill now being considered in the U.S. Con gress. ‘This is a significant sign of solidarity in Pennsylvania, and the proposals which we are putting forward offer a common-sense ap proach to milk marketing,” Bro sius said. Cow Comfort Translates designed,” he said. Gary Heim, attorney with Mettc, Evans and Woodside, and Liz Brown, tax consultant and pre parer, spoke about some of the strategies farm businesses can use to transfer assets and the business enterprise to succeeding family members. One of the ways that estate transfers often prove troubling, according to Brown, is the lack of communication between farm family members. 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The board is charged with licensing milk haulers and handlers, establishing over-order prices, and operating a producer security fund, among other duties. Brosius said that the current federal assessment of $0.1125 per hundred weight on dairy produc ers intended to reduce the federal deficit has been a burden and should be eliminated. The dollars saved by that step could be used more effectively to help dairymen increase their profitability. The department and PMMB said they support full federal fund ing of all dairy export programs, including funding of the Dairy Ex port Incentive Program and other promotional programs designed to increase dairy exports. Funding for expanded export programs can be generated from efficiencies built into the bill, and from con solidation of federal market or ders. Tons per acre at 6 m.p.h. See Your AGCO - New Idea Dealer Listed Below. Delaware Georgetown Baxter Farms Maryland Dayton J.D. Mullinix Lineboro Wertz Farm Equipment Rising Sun Biggs Inc New Jersey Bridgeton Leslie G. Fogg Columbus Reed Brothers Shioh Farm Rite Pennsylvania Airville Farmers Equipment & Supply Bechtelsville Miller Equipment Bethel Zimmerman’s Farm Service Bloomsburg William F. Welliver Carlisle Carlisle Farm Service Chambersburg Chambersburg Farm Service Cochranville Stoltzfus Farm Service Dover ***^ George N. Gross Easton Fancy Furrow Farm Greencastle Meyers Implements Honesdale Marshall Machinery Jersey Shore Thomas L. Dunlap Klingerstown Stanley’s Farm Service Lebanon Umbergers of Fontana Mahaffey Hutton Farm Supply Mifflinburg B, S&B Repair New Bethlehem Hetrick Farm Supply Oakland Mills Peoples Sales & Service Quarryville A..L. Herr Somerset Lincoln Supply Consolidating existing federal market orders will eliminate dis parity in pricing structures, pool ing requirements and classifica tion. It also will allow for the pre servation of the best characteristics of each order while eliminating some of the confusion and instability o r the present sys tem. A recognition of regional dif ferences would benefit the state’s dairy industry. Both state agencies support the development of Class 1 price dif ferentials based on regional mar keting characteristics to replace the current system of basing dif ferentials on the distance from Eau Claire, Wis. Regional price development will more accurately reflect market conditions. Brosius and Wilkinson also support replacement of the Minne sota-Wisconsin pricing scheme. They said they believe that a Class 111 price developed according to current prices being paid for manufactured products more ac curately reflects market condi tions.
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