Farm Bureau
(continued from Page A 1)
legislators include:
• Water resource manage
ment At least seven water re
source management bills have
been introduced in the General
Ann Mease
CREP Outreach
Natural Resource
Conservation Office
Would you like to be making
$lOO-$ 160 per acre for the next
10-15 years from your marginal
cropland and streamside pas
ture, regardless of weather con
ditions or market fluctuations?
You could be if you enroll
your eligible land in the Penn
sylvania Conservation Reserve
Enhancement Program (CREP).
Available at these servicing dealers
Abbottstbwn
MESSICK’S
7491 Lincoln Hwy. RU. 30E
Abbottstown, FA 17301
717-259-6617 666-2854225
Allentown
:HIGH AG EG. INC.
3670 Ruppavilla Rd.
610-398-2553
1-800-779-3616
TRI-BORO
CONSTRUCTION
SUPPLIES
1490 RITNER HWY.
1-600-248-6590
Dallastown
TRI-BORO
CONSTRUCTION
SUPPLIES
435 Locust SI
717-246-3095
1-800-632-9018
East. Earl
GOODS LAWN &
GARDEN CENTER
Route 23
717-445-4490
Elizabethtown
MESSICK’S
187 Merle Drive
(Rheeme exit of Rt 283)
717-367-1319,800-222-3373
Ephrata
Assembly. Agriculture in Penn
sylvania is highly dependent on
water resources. None of the
bills proposed so far contain
provisions needed to protect
farmers from possible unreason-
Enrolled In CREP?
However, the program has an
acreage cap, statewide, and the
time to ask for more information
or enroll your land is now.
CREP is a federal/state part
nership with the goal of enroll
ing 100,000 acres of highly
erodible cropland and stream
side pastureland in conservation
cover plantings. The program is
entirely voluntary and works to
reduce soil erosion, improve
water quality, improve wildlife
habitat, and increase farm
income on marginal farmland.
SRP
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570-743-7459
■ititz/Lebam
& GARDEN
Lltltz: 717-626-3301
Lebanon: 717-272-4155
Oxford
DEER CREEK
EQUIPMENT, INC.
6600 Limestone Rd
610-932-6658
Palmyra
HERR’S repair Hagerstown. MD
SHOP EBY’S LAWN &
RD 2, Box 115 A GARDEN
717-838-1549 16409 Falrvlew Road
301-733-4158
Palmyra
WEAVER’S LAWN &
GARDEN
740 W Main St
717-838-5999
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A.K. SAW SHOP
214 Peach Bottom Road
35.2 cc, 2.obhp, 9.9 lbs.
i 229”
Reamstown
EAGLE
RENTAL CENTER
Rt. 272, Reamstown Traffic
Light
717-336-3945
A & B SALES
& SERVICE
370 Newport Road
2 Miles South of Rl. 23
MARTIN’S
EQUIPMENT CO.
Rt. 5011 1/2 Miles South of
Schaefferstown, PA
717-949-6817
Shippensburg
CEDAR GROVE FARM
STORE
1120 Rltner Hwy
717-532-7571
lie MD
SUBURBAN SALES
10757 York Rd
410-785-2277
DEER CREEK
EQUIPMENT, INC.
720 Wheeler School Rd.
301-879-5090
able and severe restrictions in
water use. Nor do they give agri
culture priority in the event of
water shortages.
• Illegal or discriminatory
local ordinances Numerous
townships have passed local or
dinances designed to prohibit or
What land is eligible for
CREP? Any cropland or mar
ginal pasture within 180 feet of a
stream is eligible. Highly credi
ble cropland greater than 180
feet from a stream may also be
eligible and buffer strips,
grassed waterways, and wet
lands may be enrolled on any
cropland.
How would I bene
fit? CREP pays you to
place land into conser
vation cover. You
would be reimbursed
for up to 100 percent
of the cost of establish
ing cover, including
the cost of streambank
fencing and crossings.
Cover may include
native warm season
grasses, cool season
grasses and legume
mixtures and, along
streams, native trees
and shrubs. You
would be paid a yearly
rental rate between
$9B-$ 164 per acre, de
pending on soil type
and practices imple
mented, as well an
annual maintenance
payment. Depending
on the practice, addi
tional one-time bonus
payments may also be
included.
How do I enroll or
find out more? If the
current statewide en
rollment rates con
tinue, CREP
that it will fulfill its al
lotment of 100,000
acres by this spring.
Don’t wait until it is
too late to find out
whether the CREP op
portunity is right for
you.
For more informa
tion, contact Ann
Mease, CREP Out
reach, at the Natural
Resource Conserva
tion Service (NRCS)
office at (717) 755-
2996, ext. 110 or e
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strongly discourage farmers
from changing or expanding
their operations. These ordi
nances exceed and ignore state
laws establishing uniformity in
the regulation of agriculture in
Pennsylvania. Farmers who
decide to challenge these ordi
nances in court subject them
selves to expensive legal fees.
Farm Bureau supports S.B. 826,
which would require townships
to reimburse legal costs to farm
ers who successfully challenge
their ordinances in court.
• Humane society police offi
cers The state Supreme Court
has ruled that a humane society
officer appointed by the court to
enforce animal cruelty laws in
one county may enforce the laws
anywhere in the state. The
ruling struck down part of a
1994 law that gave local com
munities a way to protect them
selves from humane society
officers who abused their en
forcement authority. Farm
Bureau supports S.B. 1302,
which would create an inde
pendent board within the state
Department of Agriculture to
regulate private humane society
enforcement officers. The board
could grant enforcement power
to humane society officers or
revoke it if misconduct or abuse
of power is committed.
• Funding for agriculture
The governor’s budget proposal
for the next fiscal year contains
several funding cuts which
affect agriculture. Instead of the
proposed five percent budget
cuts for agriculture research and
extension at Penn State and for
the School of Veterinary Medi-
Northwest Savings Bank To
Open sth York County Office
YORK (York Co.) North
west Savings Bank is opening a
new, full-service banking facility
at.the intersection of Roosevelt
Avenue and Route 30 in the late
spring of this year.
Formerly a branch office of
Fulton Bank, Northwest Sav
ings Bank’s new Roosevelt
Avenue Office will be its third
office in metropolitan York and
its fifth banking location in
York County.
In making the announcement,
Lynn Baker, region manager,
said, “It is a real pleasure to say
we’re opening this new office to
better serve our York customers,
both old and new, with the con
venience, full-service banking
and personal, home town service
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 6, 2002-A25
cine at the University of Penn
sylvania, Farm Bureau wants
funding increased by about 3.25
percent for these important pro
grams. In addition, full funding
is needed for a program that
helps farmers insure their crops
against weather disasters.
• Other Issues Farm
Bureau supports S.B. 1253,
which would provide grants to
encourage production of alter
native fuels and ethanol in
Pennsylvania and would refund
state liquid fuels taxes for three
years to distributors of ethanol
fuel. The bill would also require
replacement over a three-year
time span of the fuel additive
methyl tertiary butyl ether
(MTBE) with ethanol.
To help reduce lawsuit abuse,
Farm Bureau supports S.B. 406,
which would give the defendant
in a frivolous lawsuit the right to
sue the attorney or law firm rep
resenting the plaintiff in the
lawsuit. Farm Bureau supports
H.B. 236 and H.B. 936, which
would reduce the burden of state
inheritance taxes on families.
Because Act 50 of 1998, in
tended to provide for local tax
reform, has only been adopted
by five of Pennsylvania’s 501
school districts, Farm Bureau is
asking lawmakers to come up
with new legislation to address
the problem of adequately fi
nancing school districts without
imposing unfair property tax
burdens on farmers.
Farm Bureau supports H.B.
2398 and S.B. 1045, which
would make farmers eligible for
low-interest loans under the
state’s Small Business First Pro
gram.
they want and deserve.”
Baker explained that the new
office, located at 1700 Roosevelt
Avenue, will mark another mile
stone in Northwest’s service to
York County, which, in one
form or another, began in 1915.
Founded in 1896, Northwest
Savings Bank specializes in
serving smaller communities in
33 counties in Pennsylvania and
Ohio. With $3.9 billion in assets,
the company operates 118 com
munity banking locations, plus
full-service brokerage plus In
vestment Management and
Trust services. The stock of
Northwest Bancorp, Inc.,
Northwest Savings Bank’s
parent company, trades on the
Nasdaq system under the
symbol “NWSB.”