Tobacco Price
Steady From
Last Week
PARADISE (Lancaster Co.)
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Reproduction of the Future,
Solanco High School.
Computerized Farm Financial
Records Workshops, Centre
County Extension, Bellefonte,
10 a.m.-3 p.m., also Jan. 4,9,
Berks County Daily Day, exten
sion office. 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Dairy Managing For Success
Program, Moss’s Steak and Sea
House. Gettysburg, also Jan.
ing, Thompson’s Dairy Bar,
Newton.
Chester County Dairy Day,
Oxford Fire Hall, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
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Tobacco prices in the county
remained basically unchanged on
Monday and Wednesday during
the second week of the auction sea
son at the Paradise Tobacco
Auction.
Top price was $1.25, for a $1.19
average on Monday. Only 13,000
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pounds were sold. Top price paid
at the beginning of the auction last
week was $1.25.
..Farmers are “holding strong,’’
according to an auction spokesper
son, and remain reluctant to sell
until the price improves.
Editor:
The meeting recently on “Far
mer Preservation” obviously sol
ved nothing. There appears to
have been much dialog, no con
crete solutions.
As is usually the case, the fore
most consideration of all individu
als is, “How will it affect my per
sonal financial situation?” The
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 16, 1995435
At the start of the sale Wednes
day. 500,000 pounds still remained
on the flow. Top price from buyers
remained at $1.25 per pound. The
warehouse bought some for $1.27
and $1.30 per pound. A total of
52,000 pounds were sold
Wednesday.
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farmer is concerned about his
equity, the developer is concerned
about changes because he is estab
lished in the area and his business
would be affected. The lender
could lose a potential source of
business. The township supervisor
is concerned because it would
mean a curtailment of the expan
sion of the tax base, and on and
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Paradise, PA 17562
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Kirkwood, PA 17536
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RR#l, Box 695
Port Trevorton, PA 17864
on. As long as the price of food is
cheap and our bellies are full, why
should we worry about the disap
pearance of farmland?
If we are truly concerned about
the preservation of the agricultural
base we must abandon an age-old
paradigm. In its place we must
substitute a paradigm of regional
planning radio' than local plan
ning. There arc areas in each
county which are not very well
suited to modem agriculture. One
such in Lancaster County is
located in the eastern portion
along Route 10 near Compass.
While there are more, I’m using
this as a case in point. As is the
case in nearly all undeveloped
areas, the transportation facilities
are very poor or nearly nonexis
tent. As a result industry will not
locate there and developers will
not build as the area is
undesirable.
This could easily be remedied
by spending highway construction
dollars to improve roadways or
construct new roadways to make
these areas more accessible and
more desirable, while withholding
constructon of highways which
will only encourage further deve
lopment in areas desired for agri
cultural use.
A case in point. Thir
ty years ago I was
employed as an excavat
ing foreman on the
Route 30 bypass at Cen
terville. This highway
bisected a valley of the
most beautiful agricul
tural soil 1 have ever
seen, absolutely the fin
est. Today that land
adjacent has been nearly
fully developed, what a
shame! Lack of plan
ning. Locating that
roadway just a quarter
mile or so north, in
places it would have
traversed a rocky ridge
and preserved the fertile
valley.
Yes, the old paradigm
must be abandoned.
This nation developed
around the farmland.
Towns sprang up to sup
port agriculture. As the
population grew, so did
the towns, along came
industry and towns
became cities, but it all
evolved around agricul
ture and like the comic
“Topsy” of my youth, it
wasn’t bom (planned) it
just “growed.”-
No longer can we
afford the luxury of just
letting it grow. The time
has come for some seri
ous central planning.
There is more than suffi
cient land area whereby
we can have both deve
lopment and agriculture
and make wise use of
the land. If you doubt
me, hop on a plane and
fly over this vast land of
ours. There is absolutely
no reason to concentrate
the population on our
coasts. Modem trans
portation can service all
areas of our country.
Come now, what are
we most concerned
about, our personal
financial situation or
preserving something of
much higher value for
posterity?
Harold R. Stoudt
Hamburg