A22-L«nca»tef Farming, Saturday, September 4, 1999
Dairy
Farmers
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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
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consumers will see little impact,
greater dilemma.
In a letter to USDA, Dairy
Farmers of America said its
members were approving the
pricing plan reluctantly. "Our 'yes'
This is because all other dairy
farmers except those in the upper-
Midwest will see a decline in their
milk prices. But they voted for the
change because to have no federal
order program would cause a
vote does not mean that dairy
farmers can live with the final
rule. They Cannot. Economically,
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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
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Lancaster County tobacco
fanners may get $2,000 per grow
er per year for several years be
cause of a settlement reached with
the cigarette industry.
It appears farmers are in line for
a windfall as a result of settlement
reached this month between the
cigarette industry and 14 tobacco
producing states, including Penn
sylvania.
The settlement, approved by a
North Carolina court, calls for to
bacco companies to pay $3BO mil
lion this year to the 14 states, ac
cording to Joel Ressler, senior de
puty at the Pennsylvania Attorney
General’s office.
The payments will continue for
12 years, but the amounts will be
determined annually. 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,
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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. The
$2 million will not be disbuhed.
however, until an appeal over
Pennsylvania’s portion of the set
tlement is resolved.
“Each state brought its own
lawsuit, and some of them are still
pending because there are similar
appeals out there,” he said.
Dr. Robert Sklaroff, a Mont
gomery County cancer specialist,
is behind the appeal, which recent
ly was rejected by a Common
wealth Court Sklaroff is asking
that court for a reconsideration
and has said he will take the case
to the state Supreme Court, ac
cording to Ressler. He called
Sklaroff an “anti-smoking acti
vist” who “doesn’t like the deal.”
Details on exactly how die pay
ments will provide incentives to
begin growing other crops are still
being worked out Ressler said,
but he added that farmers are not
being given an ultimatum to stop
growing tobacco.
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