A22-L«nca»tef Farming, Saturday, September 4, 1999 Dairy Farmers (Continued from Page A 1) Farm Bill, Congress mandated that USDA reform the program by Oct. 1, 1999. Chris Galen, a spokesman for the National Milk Producers Federation has been quoted, as saying, dairy farmers will lose $2OO million a year compared to the current system while No. Producers eligible to No. of Producers Participate Voting Order leas’ Appalachian Florida Southeast Upper Midwest lentral Mideast Pacific Northwest Southwest Arizona-Las Vegas Western KENNETH V- STAUFFER R.R. #1 Box 307^Mt. 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They Cannot. Economically, 18,570 4,099 5,099 23,294 7,903 9,874 1,094 1,457 119 906 the income and livelihood ot many dairy farm families will suffer significantly under your proposal," the group said. The Federal Milk Marketing Order reform process lasted more than three years and involved the dairy industry, the general public, and academia. The process included detailed regulatory impact, small business, and civil rights analyses and extensive efforts to collect public views that resulted in more than 8,000 comments being received. Percentage of Approval among voting producers 13,921 3,226 3,982 20,013 7,703 6,971 1,009 1,432 116 678 r eat Step Into And Stay AwfSle~. Open Hearth Foods & Traditional Festival Fare Admission: Fri. $5 • Si Children 12 & Under At Historic loanna Fun 2 mi. 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Ressler said the goal is to help farmers find new ways to generate a living. ‘The thinking is that by then, farmers should have adjusted and moved chi to other products,” Ressler said. “We want to encour age them to make the transition, but the amount any grower will get is not enough to get them to •*»* *QvilWar Encampments stop growing totally.” North Carolina will get about a third of the $3BO million settle ment Pennsylvania, which repre sents less than 1 percent of the in dustry. will get $2 million, with 90 percent of that destined for Lan caster County. Ressler said he believes there are about 1,000 tobacco growers in Pennsylvania with 900 of them in Lancaster County. Based on those numbers, the settlement works out to about $2,000 per grower. Ressler said his agency will be working with the state Department of Agriculture to put together a list of Pennsylvania’s growers. 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