Annual Report 2012

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INSIDE THIS SECTION

A look at Agriculture and Industry Extreme weather affects area crops

Cumberland County turns to strategic planning

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In Pennsylvania budget, a wilting farm fund

Farmers struggle to keep up with organic milk demand

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Farmers markets thrive as consumers choose local produce

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Farmland preservation funding stirs controversy

Virtual farmers market could become a reality D8

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Manufacturers boost economy E7

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Region faces transportation crisis

Beef prices expected to keep climbing

State organizations provide services to community, farmers

Rules could limit farm roles of kids

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Last year was a wild year for weather. From tornadoes to flooding, it was a year of extremes, weather-wise, in the region.

In 2011, the area notched records for rainfall (18.43, set in September), snowfall (5.5 inches, set in October), and flooding (26.8 feet, at Hershey).

After being hammered by tornadoes and earthquakes – and all of that before the year was half-over – the Cumberland Valley then got socked by hurricanes.

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usually active tornado season, 2011 also had a very active hurricane season.

Beginning with Hurricane Irene, the Cumberland Valley had an exceptionally wet late summer and early fall.

The category 3 storm made landfall in the U.S. on Saturday, Aug. 27, slamming into North Carolina’s Outer Banks and bringing heavy rain and whipping winds.

It then tracked up the coast, hitting New Jersey and New York City. One of the concerns at the time was

that Irene would do what Agnes had done in June of ’72 and stall over the midAtlantic region for several days.

When Agnes did it, it dumped rainfall on alreadysoaked areas and caused 500-year flooding in parts of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.

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Weather • Continued from D3 soaked Cumberland Valley then got drenched by Tropical Storm Lee, which dumped several inches of rain in the area.

Combined, the two storms put more than a foot of rain on parts of Pennsylvania and sent the Susquehanna River over its banks in several places.

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Apple grower Ben Wenk, manager and grower at Three Springs Fruit Farm in Adams County, concurred.

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Keeping it fresh Farmers markets thrive as shoppers seek local produce Community-supported agriculture is a way to introduce people to different varieties of food. â–

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For the last three years, the Farmers on the Square farmers market has been providing people with a much-needed service: the ability to buy fresh, locally grown, often organically raised produce, meats and other goods.

Fa r m e rs m a rke ts a re springing up everywhere as people look for local alternatives to buy foodstuffs.

People flock to farmers markets for many reasons — fresh produce, local produce, organic produce, reducing carbon imprints, even to socialize.

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People like that their food traveled fewer miles than imported produce, and they like keeping money in their local communities, she added. “You read about another recall, and there’s no worry — you know who grows your food,� she said.

Every consumer has his or her own reason for choosing local over imported, but they generally fall into the categories of food safety, reducing the carbon footprint, “and because our product tastes amazing,� she added.

CSAs are a good way to introduce people to a type of food they might not have seen or tried before. “The first time we gave our customers Swiss chard, we gave instructions for how to prepare it,� she said of the green, leafy vegetable so prominent in Mediterranean cooking.

One of the things Farmers on the Square offers is farmers who participate in CSAs. Community-supported agriculture is built on the “premise that people Diversity pre-pay and receive a share CSAs are “very diverse,â€? during the growing seaJason Malmont/The Sentinel in what they provide, with son. It can be 25 weeks or Heidi Witmer of Carlisle, left, purchases fresh vegetables from Brendan Murtha of Dickinson College a full year,â€? said Katie ColFarms at Farmers on the Square. • See Local, D6 lege, a FOTS board member

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Above: Ashley Wenk of Three Springs Fruit Farm organizes an apple display at Farmers on the Square.

Three Springs is family owned and operated for seven generations and all produce is locally grown.

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some of them including value-added products like home-made jams and jellies or breads.

She and Yeehaw Farms work together, with Yeehaw providing a meat CSA that offers pork, beef and turkey products.

Judy and Tom Radel, owners of Yeehaw Farm near Duncannon in Perry County, actually offer a whole diet CSA — they provide milk, meats, fruits, grains, vegetables and value-added products. “We have a little primitive farm store and people come to our store to pick up their groceries,� Judy Radel said.

Many of their customers are less adamant about buying organic than they are about supporting a local farmer, she said. “It’s not so much organic, it’s just local,� Tom Radel added. They want to buy local, support local farms and keep the money in the community.

Carla Snyder, who works as the Downtown Carlisle Association retail recruiter and also works at Everblossom Farm in Adams County, said that it was also about keeping money local, but suggested that people who shop at farmers markets develop a “real bond� with the farmers from whom they buy their food.

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It’s a threat to their health and well-being and people are being wise to that,� he added. “Buying local gives people peace of mind,� he said.

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He’s said it before, and he’ll say it again — “This is the transportation crisis hitting home.�

Kirk Stoner, director of planning for Cumberland County, has repeatedly sounded the warning for the board of commissioners that there are dire circumstances facing the county because of cuts in transportation funding. “That’s our big issue, transportation funding crisis,� he said. “We’re running transportation deficits, and we haven’t seen any new transportation legislation from the federal government, which reauthorizes the amount of money� states and, therefore, counties get, he said.

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There are 103 municipalities in that area. We look at all the project needs that are out there� and decide which need to be — and can be — done at the highest priority. “We already know there is $3.5 billion we can’t fund.

We have to be real cautious in our priorities, we have to look at what’s the best use of the money,� he said. “There were big projects completed over the last year — Exit 44 (on Interstate 81), Route 15-851. That’s almost $100 million just in Cumberland County alone,� he pointed out.

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Stoner asked the Cumberland County commissioners to authorize the advertisement of a resolution to lower the weight limit on Orrs Bridge to 21 tons (or 25 tons in combination), down from 30 tons (or 40 tons in combination). The bridge serves an estimated 10,000 vehicles per day.

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County turns to strategic planning The plan is aimed at providing a blueprint for what the county wants to look like and a map for how to get there. â–

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In a time of shrinking revenues, a recessionary economy and competing interests, more and more municipalities are turning to strategic and comprehensive plans.

Proof that leadership starts from the top down, Cumberland County also has a strategic plan, which is aimed at providing a blueprint for what the county wants to look like and a map for how to get there.

The plan itself is a relatively new idea. “When I got here, I rolled out a taxpayer protection plan. I said we have to have a strategic plan. What that really means is, what are the things we’re absolutely committed to funding and what are the things we’re not absolutely committed to funding when money gets tight,� Commissioner Gary Eichelberger said. “I initiated the first-ever commissionerlevel strategic visioning process,� he said.

The board at the time held a long series of sessions, trying to determine the major community needs and how the county could help achieve them. “It was a vision document, not really a

strategic plan,� he said. “It went up through 2015, looking at what the commissioners think need to be addressed. It’s all about setting priorities, having a vision for what you want to become and making priority action items for what it takes to achieve that.� “You have to have those things in place.

You can always refine that process going forward. It’s not so much a plan as having a systematic means of planning,� he explained. “Each commissioner’s individual needs and priorities need to be put on the table so we can build a consensus of priorities — what we can afford, what must we fund, what is nice but not essential,� he added. “We have to establish a vision for what we want. We have to determine how we measure success. We have to set milestones and ask, ‘Are we reaching the goals we’ve established?’� he said.

He envisions a three-pronged process: a strategic plan, for greater use in longrange planning and goal setting; performance management, monitoring success in achieving goals identified in the planning process; and building a tax base to achieve a better balance among commercial, residential and industrial to provide more rev-

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enue. zoning ordinances of three boroughs any“What we’re doing right now is trying to where in the state, “ he said. achieve this framework with the new board Other local municipalities that are upand we’re not there yet,� he said. dating their codes include Dickinson and North Middleton townships, which are County plan working on their subdivision and land “The economy still has an impact on de- use development ordinance (SALDO) and velopment in Cumberland County,� said zoning ordinances; Upper Allen TownKirk Stoner, director of planning for the ship, which is working on a comprehensive county. plan; West Pennsboro Township, which is “Municipalities are actively updating working on its zoning ordinance and the their ordinances and plans, using this pause Borough of Carlisle, which is working on in development activity to really plan for the zoning changes and potential planning future,� he added. “In 2004-2005, they were really under the activities in the northern part of the borgun. In the midst of all those proposals, they ough, he added. “A comprehensive plan is a blueprint for were too busy to do any meaningful planning activity. Now, Camp Hill, Wormleys- your future. If you have a preferred future in burg and Lemoyne are working on a joint mind, this should be your blueprint and set zoning ordinance. It’s one of the few joint of directions,� Stoner said.

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S TA U N T O N , Va . — Staunton Fresh, an online farmers’ market that promises to connect local foods with local people, may sound pie in the sky, but after more than a year of planning by local entrepreneur Michael Reeps the concept looks close to delivering, literally.

Reeps, whose concept idea was selected for a $5,000 Staunton Creative Community Fund grant out of the more than 25 ideas pitched at three Ignite Staunton events, is ready to usher the idea into a reality in the next couple of months. Once up and running, the Staunton Fresh website promises to help Staunton residents find local goods from vegeta-

Funding • Continued from D7 “Costs are continuing to ride, but our ridership continues to rise, too,â€? he added. “There are better ways to do things, ways to be more efficient with what we have.

Ultimately, there is only so much we can cut. We’re doing everything we can to do a better job,� he said.

The agency provides more than 10,000 rides per day. “Imagine another 5,000 cars on the roads, on an already over-taxed system.

It’s a recipe for disaster,� he said. “We give people transportation options, we help people, take the pressure off an already over-taxed transportation network,� he added.

“I’m providing a service to link customers to the goods they want.�

bles, fruits, meats, cheeses, breads and, yes, maybe even pies. “I’m not buying foods and delivering to customers,� tomers can pick them up.

Reeps said. “I’m providing a The money sellers earn will service to link customers to be deposited to their bank the goods they want.� account within a week.

Himself a bit of a locavore Concept — someone who makes a Here’s how it works: concerted effort to buy loFarmers and other producers cal food and goods — Reeps list their goods and set the hatched the idea after a plan prices on the website, cus- to open a food cooperative in tomers who’ve paid an an- downtown Staunton failed nual membership fee to join to get off the ground. the website can shop at their “I drive out to farms, go leisure during the week and to farmers’ markets and I’m purchase whatever listed a member of a CSA (comgoods they want. Both buy- munity-supported agriculers and sellers will receive an ture),� Reeps said. “It turns invoice, and on Saturdays a into a lot of trips and a lot of delivery service will pick up time that not everyone has. the goods and truck them to I wanted to find a way to get downtown Staunton where these products to people.�

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Weather • Continued from D4 harvesting, yet in the middle of July, “we still had to move irrigation pipes,â€? he said.

It was to hard plant, the early plants rotted in the ground and later crops were damaged by subsequent storms. “Our crop insurance participation is right around 50 percent, between 12K and 13K policies. It’s almost 1.2 million acres, and it’s paid out about $44 million, but that number will rise because claims are still being processed,� Powell said. “Some of what happens to crops depends on where you are, whether you got flooded. Root vegetables have more potential for damage, have a higher value and are

more perishable,� she said.

Of the state’s 67 counties, 57 were declared disaster areas. “We were hit by Hurricane Irene, then Tropical Storm Lee, then wind and flooding.

Earlier in the year it was dry, then wet,� she said, summing up the year.

On the bright side, the unusually rainy, wet weather decimated the stink bug population by making conditions unfavorable for bug growth, development, maturation, mating, egg laying and hatching.

The hard-to-kill invasive insects are notorious for damaging the appearance of otherwise edible soft fruit crops by sinking their straw-like mouth parts into the flesh, leaving brown spots behind.

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Local farms like Polyface, Nu Beginnings and A Better Way have heard the pitch and are interested, and when he gets 200 members signed up as buyers he will start taking orders. “This was a project that is not only entrepreneurial in nature, but has the potential to reach out and positively impact a lot of people in the community,� said Meghan Williamson, executive director of the Staunton Creative Community Fund. “There were a lot of good ideas and the decision was very difficult for our judges. We were very pleased with the level of enthusiasm and energy from the community. Ultimately, this project was ready to go and could be launched with the $5,000 grant, and could have a broad impact in the community.�

response is going to be, it was an overwhelming experience,� Reeps said. “I would say it’s the one reason that I went from conceptualizing this idea to doing it. Ignite helped me put in on a path to making it happen, and the money was almost secondary.�

Connections In addition to making him iron out the details and giving him the seed money to see the venture through, the Ignite Staunton events proved invaluable in helping Reeps make connections in the community. At one event it was suggested to him that he contact Shenandoah Food about doing the pick up and delivery, and he did. They came on board almost immediately. “At first I thought I was going to have to find a van and do it myself,� Reeps said. “But it’s a lot easier if you can find someone who’s already doing that.�

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Beef prices expected to keep climbing Experts say there could be as much as a 10 percent increase in the next two years. â–

By BETSY BLANEY Associated Press

LUBBOCK, Texas — The smallest cattle herd since the 1950s likely will mean higher beef prices at the supermarket for the next two years.

Experts said beef prices could climb as much as 10 percent a year in 2012 and 2013, and the increase could be even greater if demand from other countries increases.

Those higher prices would follow steady increases that have seen the average retail cost of a pound of hamburger rise 23 percent, from $2.38 in December 2010 to $2.92 last December, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Declining herd In January, the USDA reported the U.S. herd had declined to 90.8 million cattle, 2 percent less than the previous year and the lowest inventory since 1952, when there were 88.1 million. “We’re producing less beef so prices are going to go up,�

Texas AgriLife Extension Service livestock economist David Anderson said.

Ranchers have sold more of their cattle in recent years to meet increased costs for

feed, fuel and other expenses. The soaring feed costs come amid heightened demand for corn to produce ethanol and to meet a growing export market.

The situation has been worst in Texas, the nation’s leading cattle producer, and other parts of the southern plains and southwest, where a record drought caused pastures to wither, leaving ranchers with few options but to sell their cattle or pay top-dollar for feed.

There are 1.4 million fewer cattle — a record 660,000 of those cows — in Texas this year compared with the previous year, accounting for about 74 percent of the drop in numbers nationally. The animals were either moved to another state or were slaughtered.

Texas still leads the nation with 11.9 million head of cattle and calves, an 11 percent drop from last January.

Cattle numbers plunged 12 percent in Oklahoma, to 4.5 million head, and in New Mexico by 10 percent, to 1.39 million head.

Some good news While cattle numbers dropped in those states, they have climbed elsewhere, especially in the Northern Plains where more rain led

Matthew O’Haren/Special to The Sentinel

Beef cattle on the opening day of the 96th Annual Pennsylvania Farm Show at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg. to plentiful pastureland.

Even in the Southwest, there has been some good news, as the USDA reports that producers held onto more heifers, or young cows, than some expected. The January report showed a 1 percent increase over last year’s number of heifers retained.

That could put the industry in position to grow the herd more quickly

Until the cattle supply increases, consumers will see higher prices, said Lane Broadbent, a livestock analyst with KIS Futures in Oklahoma City.

“We’re producing less beef so prices are going to go up.�

Demand Broadbent said worldwide demand for U.S. beef

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“Farming is seen as a very viable and realistic option for them (veterans).�

In state budget, a wilting farm fund The state Agriculture Excellence program, that funds the Center for Dairy Excellence, is slated for elimination. â–

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Pilot project helps veterans transition to farming Program leaders hope to pair veterans with established farmers willing to mentor them. â–

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WICHITA, Kan. — A pilot program is taking root in the nation’s Heartland, one that aims to help returning veterans become farmers and revitalize rural communities. “We thought this might be a great opportunity, especially with these veterans coming back and finding out there are a lot of employment issues in cities and other large areas,� said Nick Levendofsky, special projects coordinator of the Kansas Farmers Union.

The so-called Veteran Farmers Project — funded by the Agriculture Department’s Risk Management Agency and the Center for Rural Affairs in Nebraska and supported by a coalition of farm groups across based mostly in the Midwest — will start with a series of free workshops in Kansas and Nebraska next month. In the summer, farm tours are planned across the states, including some near the Missouri and Colorado state lines to draw on veterans from neighboring states.

The program provides individual consultations with agricultural professionals, mentoring by established farmers and assistance in finding financing from local banks and government lending programs. For disabled veterans, there is also help available retrofitting tractors.

Interest in farming Chris Ritthaler, national veteran outreach coordinator for the California-based Farmer Veteran Coalition

and a partner in the project, said he is seeing a lot of interest in farming being generated not only by the job market but also by the wartime experiences of returning veterans. “Post-traumatic stress is a major factor, where they are saying, ‘I can’t work in a normal environment,’ ‘I

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SCRANTON — Farming is costly.

Paul Manning, a thirdgeneration dairy farmer and owner of Manning Dairy Farm in North Abington Township, knows all too well how stagnant milk prices combine with rising fuel, insurance and other costs to squeeze producers.

Farmers, he said, have in part survived by finding savings by using new efficient, equipment or techniques they learned about from a nonprofit organization known as the Center for Dairy Excellence.

The state Agricultural Excellence program that funds the organization is slated for elimination in the 2012-13 budget proposal released by Gov. Tom Corbett on Tuesday - and that concerns Manning. “Farmers need to do everything they can to be more

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Manning, who noted the center provides speakers and other resources, said the governor “gutted� the agriculture budget, continuing cuts that have happened several times under Gov. Ed Rendell and now potentially two times under Corbett. “You always lose a percentage of the guys� from bad management, Manning said. “What concerns me is a lot of the better guys are quitting.�

Cuts Manning has joined a chorus of people who have criticized the governor’s plans to eliminate, reduce or redirect funding and eliminate programs in his budget proposal. The critics say the cuts will hurt the state’s number one industry and stunt job creation and economic development.

The Agricultural Excellence, Livestock Show and Open Dairy Show would be eliminated.

Funding would be eliminated for agricultural research, agricultural promotion, education and exports, hardwoods research and promotion, and food and marketing research.

Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Samantha Krepps said the program funding elimination is only in the 2012-13 budget proposal, but the programs remain intact for now.

She said the state is looking for private funding for

the Center for Dairy Excellence and the Center for Beef Excellence, both of which have been supported by Agricultural Excellence.

Racing The governor’s budget proposal moves about $121 million from the Pennsylvania Race Horse Development Fund to the general fund and to Department of Agriculture programs, including Pennsylvania Fairs, Agricultural College Land Scrip Fund, University of

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Beef • Continued from D11 also could increase in the next couple of years, causing prices to stay steady or rise even if the herd size grows as expected. “An era of cheap meat might not happen for another two to three years,â€?

Broadbent said. “It’s basically supply and demand, a n d t h i s US DA re p o r t showed that our supplies are going to increase.�

USDA livestock analyst Shayle Shagam said producers who see good prices at auction might still sell off their heifers. Ranchers must weigh whether they’ll come out ahead by selling those heifers in coming months or hang onto them and sell the calves from the animals. “There’s potential for increased retention,� Shagam said. “How that evolves during the year will depend on these producer decisions.�

Cycles The cattle industry has for decades gone through cycles of expansion and contraction. The U.S. herd typically grows for about 10 years before supplies increase to a point where cattle and beef prices begin to drop. That’s when ranchers begin to sell off their animals and the contraction begins. “This is free enterprise,�

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Starting in the 1980s and through the 1990s the cycles were influenced by a shift in demand, which brought about big declines in cattle numbers. During that time people began to eat more chicken when the meat started showing up as nuggets, wings and in forms other than whole chickens, Anderson, the economist, said.

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Richard Thorpe, a rancher in Winters, about 200 miles southwest of Fort Worth, culled more than 75 percent of his 1,000-head herd because of drought. He plans to slowly rebuild with the animals he kept, and is optimistic now that the long drought is finally over. “We’ve kept the youngest, best and most fertile,� said Winters. “We have a lot of hope we are through with this horrible drought. What makes it scary to us is we have to have spring grass.�

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department’s core mission, which includes food safety Pennsylvania veterinary ac- and animal health. “You have to pick and tivities and University of Pennsylvania Center for In- chose what you can do,� she said. fectious Disease.

Krepps said the adjustHard choices ment to the horse race fund is a “one-time reduction�

And some of those who that helps to fund “pro- rely on funding in the Aggrams that are very impor- riculture Department say tant to the state’s number they may be forced to pick one industry.� and chose what to do if the “There is still $133 million department’s budget conin the purse fund, and it will tinues to be cut. go back to its 2011-2012 figAfter 40 years of racing ures,� Krepps said. horses in the state, WilNoting the state’s finan- liam Mullin fears he may be cial constraints, she said forced to hang up his saddle the budget focuses on the before he’s ready.

With the governor proposing to direct money away from race horse fund used for purses at horse races, Mullin worries he may not be able to maintain his horse farm in Lehman Township. “I don’t know. If we took that much of a cut, I don’t know if the farm would be feasible anymore,� Mullin, 55, said. “I really don’t want

can’t work for someone else,’ or ‘I can’t work around the hustle and bustle of people in a metropolitan area,’� Ritthaler said. “Farming is seen as a very viable and realistic option for them.�

Paired up Program leaders envision pairing returning veterans with established farmers willing to mentor them or hire them to help on the farm, Levendofsky said. “It is going to be a great opportunity and in some ways it is also going to be therapeutic for some of these veterans,� he said.

Program leaders acknowledge that it is extremely difficult for most veterans to get into traditional, largescale commodity agriculture. Ritthaler said most of the veterans are looking for farming operations on 10 acres or less where they can tap niche markets such as

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Many of the veterans would treat farming operations as a secondary income, either because they have a spouse who is employed or because they receive a disability check that allows them to supplement their farm income, Ritthaler said.

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Annual Report MEETING THE CHALLENGE 2012 • Part three in a five-day series • Cumberland County

Funding stirs controversy Board juggles farmland preservation, tight budget Faced with a shrunken budget, organizations petition in favor of agricultural land preservation.

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One of the most controversial topics Cumberland County faced this year was its funding of the agricultural land preservation program.

Petitioned by dozens of organizations to at least double the proposed allocation, if not fund even more fully, the board had to balance the competing needs of farmland preservation and a tightened, shrunken budget.

“We budgeted $250,000 for agricultural preservation,” Commissioner Gary Eichelberger said, despite being asked to fund it to $500,000 or more.

The program doesn’t buy land. It buys development

rights by obtaining what’s known as a negative easement. The easement prevents the land from being developed.

The purchase price is determined by a formula that calculates the difference between the current price and the conjectured price if the land were to be developed, Eichelberger explained.

“We’re able to ensure that we’re funding the best of the best, that this absolutely is land of the highest agricultural use. It’s a very expensive tool, it’s the most expensive tool available in an era of limited resources, and we have to ask, ‘Is this the best use of the dollars we have?’” Eichelberger said.

• See Funding, E2

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Funding • Continued from E1 “There are a number of motivations at hand. There are a lot of farmers who would like to see their farms remain in agriculture. We don’t doubt their sincerity of most them. “But the question has been put to us, ‘Why are you bribing farmers not to sell to developers?’â€? he added.

Transition “There is a recognition that in an area that grows rapidly like ours does, we’re transitioning from what we were, agriculture, to what we will become, and that’s a question mark,� he said. “There is a desire to maintain rural qualities, but how do you make that happen under the laws of economics? Agriculture economics are changing and that plays into all our decisions.

The county and state are very active in a range of activities for those who wish to remain in agriculture,� he added.

Agricultural preservation involves long waiting lists and a complicated rubric by which farms are judged and measured. “Some properties are under threat and the planning folks try to make the best decision possible. The state has encouraged this to a large degree by putting money on the table,� Eichelberger said.

The amount of the state match varies from year to year — and has sometimes been more than 100 percent — but it has waned recently with more austere budgets coming down from Harrisburg. “There’s an inducement when the state puts money on the table, they’re trying to get counties to put up more money. It’s like buying one, getting one half-price. Not getting one free, getting one half-price.

It’s a good deal, but you’re still spending more than you originally would have spent,� Eichelberger said, likening it to a shoe sale or a coupon that gives a deal on buying an exceptionally large quantity — like $1 off 500 dishwasher detergent tabs.

Best use “The questions have been raised whether this is the best way to preserve farm land. It’s the law of scarcity. There are unlimited demands, but limited resources,� he said. “ W h a t i s t h e p ro p e r amount? We need to start setting realistic goals. What are our preservation goals?

We need to start making lists. Our policies need to reflect the economic realities, not just ideals,� he added. “At times, the board has blurred the line between open space and farm land preservation,� he said, referring to programs that preserve green space for public use. “We need to look at it in terms of preserving working farms, and we need to have a clear goal in sight when we look at bottom lines. We need to be looking at the entire picture, not just pieces of the puzzle.

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Before they became members of Cumberland County’s Agricultural Land Preservation Board, Diane Stamy and Boyd Weary were participants in the county’s Agricultural Conservation Easement Program.

As farmers and members of the board overseeing the ACE program, there’s no question they believe in what the program does.

Don Lloyd of Newville carries his grandson Isaiah Lloyd, 1, of East Berlin as his grandson, Josiah Lloyd, 3, right, of East Berlin looks on during the fifth annual Fall Farm Tours, sponsored by the Penn State Ag Extension office, at Hayman Farms in Carlisle.

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In Focus According to Becky Wiser, program coordinator for the farmland preservation process, there are currently 122 easements in Cumberland County with another four pending.

Those easements represent 14,825 acres of preserved farmland. “We will hit 15,000 acres this year, and we’re going to have a party to celebrate,� she said.

The county has had the program since 1989, and the first farm was preserved in 1991.

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The Stamys added to their preserved farmland through two different purchases, one that added 55 acres to their farm and another that added 105.

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Cumberland County Penn State Extension Penn State Extension is an educational entity that brings information from The Pennsylvania State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences to the community, according to District Director David Swartz.

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WESTVILLE, N.Y. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Got milk?â&#x20AC;? is getting to be a difficult question when it comes to organic.

Because even as more consumers are willing to pay premium prices for organic milk, supermarkets are having trouble keeping it on the shelves as high feed and fuel prices have left some organic dairy farmers unable to keep up with demand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The market has surged faster than supply,â&#x20AC;? said George Siemon, CEO of Wisconsin-based Organic Valley, the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest cooperative of organic farmers, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and at the same time we had high feed costs reduce supply, so we had a double hit here.â&#x20AC;?

The index may be explained by more cargo being shipped via railroads and ships than by trucks. â&#x2013;

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Cows stand in a field at Raindance Farm in Westville, N.Y.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of like a treadmill thing. If you make less milk, you make less money, and then you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to make more milk.â&#x20AC;? siobhan griffin

Popular Organic milk shortages are nothing new. As the milk â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which federal regulations require be from cows fed organic feed and free from production-boosting synthetic hormones â&#x20AC;&#x201D; rose in popularity during the past decade, there havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always been enough farmers to meet demand. It can take three years to transition a

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The shortages have been serious enough that major chains like Hannaford Supermarkets in the Northeast and Publix Super Markets in the South recently posted signs in the milk aisle advising shoppers of reduced supply.

Some relief is expected with the seasonal spring boost in production. But industry watchers say this shortage is more worrisome because of the alarming jumps in the price of organic corn and other feed coupled with higher fuel costs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of like a tread-

mill thing,â&#x20AC;? said Siobhan Griffin, an upstate New York organic farmer whose cows chomp hay in a hilly pasture. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you make less milk, you make less money, and then you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to make more milk.â&#x20AC;?

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Trucking softened in January, reflecting shipping activity last seen in mid-2010, according to an economic index released Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In December, it appeared the economy was really starting to recover in the critical sectors of employment, and that the signs in 2012 would be better than 2011 for the trucking index,â&#x20AC;? said Ed Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, and co-author of the index. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now showing that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a lot softer than what other indices suggest,â&#x20AC;? said Leamer of a number of economic barometers used to measure the health of the economy.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index is a measure of the flow of goods to U.S. factories, retailers and consumers by tracking diesel fuel purchases at 7,000 truck stops nation-

wide.

Overall, Leamer sees a disconnect between the fall in the trucking index and the improvement in a number of economic indicators published nationally. The index, which Leamer explained has â&#x20AC;&#x153;stalled,â&#x20AC;? appears to be out of sync with visible strengthening in industrial production and retail sales, which continue to grow in a healthy manner.

One possible explanation for the downward movement in goods by trucks could be that more cargo is being shipped via railroads and ships than by trucks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Another reason is that trucking is lagging because the housing sector is still flat on the floor. It takes 17 truckloads to build a home,â&#x20AC;? said Leamer, who points out that home building hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recovered as of yet.

The index also is out of

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Services â&#x20AC;˘ Continued from E4 The state Farm Bureau is not a â&#x20AC;&#x153;government agency,â&#x20AC;? though it may sound like one, said Mark Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, the media relations director for the Farm Bureau.

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are set â&#x20AC;&#x153;for what we hope to accomplish in the year ahead.â&#x20AC;?

Often, these goals revolve around policies to help make farmers more profitable or fight off unnecessary regulations, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Inside county farm bureaus themselves, they (farmers) are more active

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The state Farm Bureau boasts some 53,000 â&#x20AC;&#x153;farm familyâ&#x20AC;? members, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill said, and the membership is continually growing.

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Milk â&#x20AC;˘ Continued from E5 Losing money After a recent dip during the recession, sales of organic milk â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which can sell for twice as much or more as conventional milk â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are strong again. Sales for organic whole milk were up 16 percent from January through November of last year compared with a year earlier, even as sales of conventional milk declined, according to federal agricultural statistics.

Molly Keveney, a spokeswoman for Horizon Organic, the No. 1 selling organic milk-brand, estimated a 7 percent growth in organic milk demand in a time of flat supply.

So m e fa r m e rs h ave switched to less expensive feed, but that reduced production. Griffin, who runs Raindance Organic Farm 55 miles west of Albany, is losing money as costs outrun prices. She sold 15 cows in the fall so she could afford to buy feed for her remaining cows.

Struggling In Elko, Minn., Tim Zweber of Zweber Farms said his family sold about 20 milking cows since the fall because of the feed costs, leaving them with about 100.

Zweber â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who like Griffin is a member of the Organic Valley cooperativeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; said the price his family receives for its milk versus the high costs of producing it results in margins that are very tight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make any money doing it, take the word â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;sustainableâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; out of

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In fact, some struggling farms are switching back to conventional milk or leaving the dairy business entirely.

Milk Thistle Farm, a Hudson Valley farm that was a popular vendor at New York City farmers markets, recently announced that it no longer could afford to continue production.

Horizon and Organic Valley say they have more dairy farmers making the transition to organic. But Ed Maltby of the Northeast Organic Producers Alliance said not as many farmers are making the switch because of the economics.

Pricing problems The farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; plight illuminates an unusual feature of the U.S. dairy economy: Most farmers do not set their own milk prices.

Organic farmers typically enter into contracts with processors. This provides stability compared with the month-to-month pricing of conventional milk, but it caused problems once food and fuel costs took off.

Both Organic Valley and Horizon Organic, owned by Dean Foods Co., have raised the prices they pay to farmers to account for higher production costs.

But many struggling farmers say they need more. The Northeast Organic Producers Alliance, for instance, is petitioning for a 60 cent a gallon hike. The Western Organic Dairy Producers Alliance recently sent a letter to processors seeking an increase that would add

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There are questions over just how much consumers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even those who will pay a premium to support sustainable family farms â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will pay for a half gallon of milk.

the spirit of organic, sustainably produced food. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Forget about the letter of the law for a second, these do not comport with the values that the consumers think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re supporting when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re buying organic milk,â&#x20AC;? said Mark Kastel of the Wisconsin-based farmQuestion of values policy group The CornucoWestern alliance presi- pia Institute. dent Tony T. Azevedo said Spring boost heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to induce retailers to kick more of their perThough no one knows centage back to the farm- when supply will catch up ers, though he acknowledg- with demand, many expect es thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;a pretty daunting it to at least ease in a couple task.â&#x20AC;? of months with the producSome farm advocates say tion boost that comes each additional price pressure spring, when the fields are in comes from industrial-style bloom and cows can graze. organic farming operations Hannaford is telling cuswith 1,000 or more milk- tomers to expect more coning cows that are producing sistent inventory levels in more milk for â&#x20AC;&#x153;private labelâ&#x20AC;? April. store brands sold in superMaltby is more pessimismarkets and box stores. tic.

The large-scale operaâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Perhaps when the cows tions, some with their own go out to pasture in the processing plants, can pro- spring, there might be an induce the milk less expen- crease in production, but we sively than traditional farms donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anticipate that hapand put pressure on all pro- pening dramatically,â&#x20AC;? Maltducers to keep prices low. by said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing will really The growth of these in- change until the price that dustrial-style operations the farmer gets paid starts to has angered small-farm ad- meet their cost of producvocates who say they violate tion.â&#x20AC;?

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Jobs Statewide, about 10,700 jobs were added in December â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a modest figure, but it underscores continued improvement in the job market.

Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unemployment rate fell to 11.1 percent in December, a drop of two-tenths of a percent from November, according to the latest figures provided by the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Employment Development Department. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the lowest statewide unemployment rate since April 2009, when it was 10.9 percent.

The state lost 1.36 million jobs between July 2007 and September 2009, and since then has regained roughly 347,900 jobs, according to EDD figures.

San Diego Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unemployment rate fell to an unadjusted 8.9 percent in December, down from a revised 9.2 percent in November and below the year-ago estimate of 10.1 percent. Riverside Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unemployment rate fell to 12.5 percent in December, down from a revised 12.8 percent in November and sharply lower than the year-ago estimate of 14.2 percent.

January figures wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be released until March 9.

Leamer forecasts national economic growth at 3 percent for the year. The

gross domestic product is often considered an indicator of a countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standard of living.

Fuel Fuel costs also are a factor in growth and movement of goods. The average diesel price in California strengthened this week to $4.247 per gallon, versus $4.191 a month ago and $3.810 a year ago, according to the AAAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Daily Fuel Gauge Report.

The U.S. average for diesel was $3.931 a gallon this week, versus $3.872 a month ago and $3.526 a year ago.

Trucking index The trucking index, which examines nine U.S. Census regions, showed that the Pacific Coast (California, Oregon and Washington) fell to 99.68 in January â&#x20AC;&#x201D; down 4.49 from 104.17 in December, and below January 2011â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reading of 101.8, when the economy looked to be rebounding.

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Nationally, the index fell 1.58 points to 93.16 in January from Decemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 94.74. The January figure is slightly above the level seen in April 2010, when the index stood at 92.77.

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By TOM RAUM

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is making a strong electionyear push for an economic revival “built on American manufacturing.” But he faces an uphill slog, with little consensus even within his own party on how to do it.

For decades, the United States has gradually shifted from creating goods to providing services. Fifty years ago, a third of U.S. jobs were in manufacturing. Now they account for just 9 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A manufacturing renaissance is being preached from the White House, on the GOP campaign trail and in Super Bowl commercials.

Economists suggest plans to help boost manufacturing jobs may make more political sense than economic sense.

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WASHINGTON — American factories are humming — and driving the economy forward.

Manufacturers have been hiring more consistently than other employers, for jobs with better-than-average pay. They just had their best month of growth in five years. And more factory output has raised demand in some other industries, such as shipping, leading to further hiring.

“The manufacturing sector is on a tear,” said Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics.

No one thinks manufacturing will return to its 1950s peak. After all, the factory sector now makes up barely one-tenth of the economy.

But since the recession ended more than 2½ years ago, factories have been contributing disproportionately to the recovery in hiring and the overall economy.

A big reason, economists say, is that individuals and businesses are making major purchases they delayed during the Great Recession and its aftermath. Consumers are buying more cars and appliances. Companies are investing in industrial machinery and computers.

The release of that pentup demand gives manufacturing a kick that isn’t visible in some other corners of the economy. Manufacturing was hit particularly hard by the recession. Consumers postponed purchases of cars, refrigerators and flatscreen TVs, even as they continued to visit doctors, get haircuts and pay utility bills. “ M a n u fa c t u r i n g h a s punched above its weight, but that’s because it was punched in the stomach in the recession,” Michael Montgomery, a senior economist at IHS Global Insight, said.

Factory output got off to a robust start this year, and it ended last year with the fastest growth in five years, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.

Those were the best backto-back monthly perform a n ce s s i n ce s u m m e r 2009, when the recession ended, according to Jonathan Basile, an economist at Credit Suisse.

Manufacturing is delivering an outsize benefit to the economy in key ways:

Manufacturing up Since the recession officially ended nearly 2 1/2 years ago, manufacturing production has increased 15 percent, helped by the replacement of aging equipment and software and strong demand from foreign markets. But Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress

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in other industries such as shipping, warehousing, department store sales and auto sales. Railroad operators such as Union Pacific have stepped up hiring as their shipments of cars, machinery and other equipment have climbed.

The hiring has boosted struggling Midwestern states such as Ohio and Michigan, which will likely be battleground states in the presidential election.

George Mokrzan, an economist at Columbus, Ohiobased Huntington Bank, said those two states have added a greater percentage of jobs since the recession ended than the nation as a whole.

Wages Average hourly pay for factory workers making durable goods, such as autos, was $20.15 in January, according to the Labor Department. That’s above the average of $19.37 for the broad service sector, meaning that each new manufacturing job, on average, fuels more consumer spending than does the equivalent new service-sector jobs.

The service sector, which employs roughly 90 percent of the private-sector workforce, includes everything from restaurants and hotels

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Factory growth has also helped to increase hiring

Obama’s prescription for a manufacturing comeback was fleshed out in the new budget he submits on Monday. He is proposing tax incentives to companies that move their overseas operations back to the United States, along with tax penalties for those that don’t, more training and additional education.

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Revival • Continued from E7 this week that the rebound might not last: “More recently, the pace of growth in business investment has slowed, likely reflecting concerns about both the domestic outlook and developments in Europe.”

There are political overtones to Obama’s State of the Union appeal for “an economy that’s built to last, an economy built on American manufacturing.” Polls show support for the president has slipped in Rust Belt battleground states he won in 2008.

Despite recent increases in U.S. exports, new trade deficit figures underscored the nation’s continuing manufacturing woes. The U.S. trade gap surged 11.6 percent to $558 billion in 2011, its highest level since 2008, the Commerce Department said Friday. Much of the deficit was driven by higher imports of foreign goods than exports of American products.

Election issue Helping manufacturers recover is also being talked up by Republican presidential contenders, who all blame Obama’s policies for contributing to the decline.

Former Sen. Rick Santo-

ed the president’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2009-2010, says it is wrong to suggest that producing “real things” is more important than “services.”

“American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.

Our earnings from exporting architectural plans for a jay timmons building in Shanghai are as president, national association of manufacturers real as those from exporting cars to Canada,” she rum wants to eliminate the tor, not the manufacturing * Extend $5 billion in new wrote.

U.S. corporate tax complete- sector,” said Nigel Gault, tax credits for clean-energy ly for manufacturers, say- chief U.S. economist for the companies.

More expensive ing it would help put “men consulting firm IHS Global * Reduce the nominal Jay Timmons, president and women in this country Insight. He said he thought maximum 35 percent corof the National Associawho built this country back it was “a bit misleading” to porate tax, most likely taktion of Manufacturers, said to work.” focus so much on manufac- ing it down to the high 20s.

Mitt Romney’s get-tough turing.

He also may propose a min- his organization agrees with rhetoric on China appears to “I’m not sure why manu- imum tax on overseas prof- Obama in part, that “manufacturers are poised for a rebe winning attention from facturing rather than any its. workers and former workers other industry warrants tax Obama also has called for naissance.”

“The good news is everyin industries that have lost incentives,” Gault added. a minimum 30 percent tax body is talking about manjobs to China. The former rate on annual incomes of The plan Massachusetts governor more than $1 million. Busi- ufacturing today. Even on promises “to make America ness interests claim it could the Super Bowl, you saw Obama’s plan would: a more attractive place for * Prevent U.S. companies harm small and medium- ad after ad referring to the manufacturers to invest.” from deducting moving sized manufacturers who file promise and the potential of manufacturing in America,” Former House Speaker Newt expenses when they shift tax returns as individuals.

Gingrich says we “badly production overseas, while Obama’s sharp focus on he said. need to rebuild our manu- offering a 20 percent mov- reviving manufacturing isn’t The bad news? It is still facturing base,” promoting ing-expense tax credit for shared by all Democrats.

“20 percent more expensive job creation in the defense, businesses returning to the “Let’s not fool ourselves. to manufacture in the Unitenergy and space industries. U.S. We’re not going to have the ed States than it is anywhere * Establish a new trade en- kind of manufacturing- else in the world,” Timmons This heavy attention on manufacturing may be mis- forcement unit. based economy we had 30 said. placed, economists suggest. * Modify a tax credit for or 40 years ago,” says Robert Obama supporters argue “The vast majority of jobs domestic production to Reich, labor secretary under his proposals would help in the future are going to be make it apply more narrowly President Bill Clinton. And make U.S. factories more created in the service sec- to manufacturing.

Christina Romer, who head- competitive.

One much-discussed Super Bowl ad was a Chrysler spot featuring actor Clint Eastwood that celebrates Detroit, suggesting it was near collapse until the residents “all pulled together.”

Eastwood implores the nation to do the same. Some Republicans called the spot a valentine to Obama’s auto bailout. Eastwood insists it was apolitical.

Chrysler (“Our second half is about to begin.”) showed, Americans are thought to respond more emotionally to a rebound in manufacturing than in other sectors. The perception that American manufacturing is healthy again

keep growing faster than the broader economy for the rest of the year. It’s not clear how long that will continue.

“This is nothing more than the manufacturing sector recovering faster because it got hammered worse,” Montgomery said.

“The good news is everybody is talking about manufacturing today. Even on the Super Bowl, you saw ad after ad referring to the promise and the potential of manufacturing in America.”

Powerhouse still Despite the job losses, the U.S. remains an exporting powerhouse, right behind No. 1 China and vying with Germany for the No. 2 rank.

U.S. factories have steadily become more advanced and automated, requiring only a fraction of the workers previously needed.

Yet, China is beginning to take some market share from the U.S. in exporting advanced products and equipment, said a report by the U.S. Business and Industry Council, which represents mainly family-owned companies.

“These findings demolish the still-widespread view that Chinese economic competition can be safely downplayed because it’s largely confined to cheap consumer goods,” council official Alan Tonelson said.

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AVILLA, Ind. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; At 14, Sam Lawrence talks about farming like an old-timer.

The middle school student often works the family farm in Noble County decked out in jeans, plaid shirt, boots with spurs and a baseball cap. Sam canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine any other way of life. Sure, he plays video games, surfs the Internet and totes a cellphone like many kids his age.

But there is a seriousness about him that many might call a sense of purpose. Sam merely calls it â&#x20AC;&#x153;all I know.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would hurt if I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help out,â&#x20AC;? he said, during an unseasonably warm weekday this month. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I mean, kids are a big part of what gets done on a farm. I enjoy what I do. It would deďŹ nitely hurt if it was taken away.â&#x20AC;?

Controversial proposal The U.S. Department of Labor may break Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart. The agency is seeking to tweak its regulations with a controversial proposal that would include greatly

limiting the work children younger than 16 can perform on farms.

Labor officials maintain that young workers are significantly more likely to die or suffer a serious injury doing agricultural work than in any other industry.

A spokeswoman for the department said more than 100 youngsters die from farm-related injuries every year.

Under initially proposed changes, if a parent or guardian is the sole owner of an agricultural operation, their children are exempt.

But if the adults are partowners - like Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents - youths in some cases canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even bale hay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of crazy,â&#x20AC;? said his mother, Susan, who with her husband, Scott, is raising three children on 10 acres in Avilla. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I mean, I know what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to do, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think they really understand how a family farm works these days with the cost of equipment and other expenses,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rare that a person starts a farm from scratch.â&#x20AC;?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one reason the Lawrence family shares 158 acres with Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandfather, who owns the majority of the property. They grow alfalfa and raise livestock for 4-H shows and freezer beef.

The clan also boards horses for themselves and others.

Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s horse is Jet. The Labor Department wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t prevent his contact with the animal the teen calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;my brother,â&#x20AC;? but it would stop him from feeding, cleaning and tending to livestock - something he spends at least 20 hours a week doing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know accidents can happen, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why they call them accidents. Nobody expects it to happen. We try to take the necessary precautions to reduce or avoid accidents,â&#x20AC;? Susan Lawrence said.

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Siblings Sarah Lawrence, 12, left, Samuel, 14, and Sage, 7, talk about their Northeast Indiana has chores in the hayloft of their family farm in Availla, Ind.

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injuries when he got caught in rotating spikes used to grind corn inside a silage wagon near Harlan. Nathan survived but lost his right leg.

His mother, Viola Lengacher, said she blames no one and disagrees with rule changes the Labor Department is proposing. The family runs a dairy farm and also grows corn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What are the kids going to be doing while weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the fields?â&#x20AC;? Lengacher asked. She has 11 sons and a daughter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I consider what happened an act of God because of what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned from this. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned patience, how to care for one another and what really matters in life.â&#x20AC;?

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Hadley said the restrictions would result in costly expenses for farmers because they would have to hire workers for everyday jobs.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Misleadingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bill Field is a Purdue University professor working in the Agricultural Safety and Health Program. He said the labor agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposed regulation is â&#x20AC;&#x153;vague and misleading.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re including anything that happens on a farm,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That includes a child injured riding an ATV, a gunshot wound from hunting or if a child drowns in a pond.â&#x20AC;?

Field said he is not minimizing such injuries but said it is not fair to â&#x20AC;&#x153;inflate numbers to create public outrage.â&#x20AC;?

Concern An outpouring of concern from farmers nationwide and members of Congress prompted the agency to

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Samuel Lawrence, 14, pours in the feed for the cattle from outside the pen at his family farm in Availla, Ind., Wednesday, Feb. 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;re-proposeâ&#x20AC;? its child labor regulation this month. The department received 10,000 comments nationwide agonizing over the pending changes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Department of Labor appreciates and respects the role of parents in raising their children and assigning tasks and chores to their children on farms and of relatives such as grandparents, aunts and uncles in keeping grandchildren, nieces and nephews out of harmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way,â&#x20AC;?

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis said in a Feb. 1 statement.

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No date for a decision has been announced.

Response Cindy Berning runs a family dairy farm in southern Allen County. She said if the rules remain, many children

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Echoing others, Roger Hadley, president of the Allen County Farm Bureau, voiced concerns early on. In a December interview, Hadley said the proposed rules regarding children under 16 werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;even practicalâ&#x20AC;? because they would interfere with even â&#x20AC;&#x153;simple farm work.â&#x20AC;?

Rachel Tobin-Smith, executive director of the child abuse and neglect agency SCAN, said she is no expert on farm culture, but childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safety should always come first. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A parent should make sure that the jobs are ageappropriate and that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been trained in the safety aspects of the job,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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Sarah says the same. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hate lazy days,â&#x20AC;? she said, grabbing her long red hair as if to put it in a ponytail. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are some days when there may not be a lot to do.

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Hadley recently said the department would be making a big mistake if it limits kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; exposure to agriculture. The work ethic learned on farms would be lost. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The (government) is really meddling in something that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know anything about,â&#x20AC;? Hadley said.

As for those startling statistics about farm deaths, opponents of the Labor Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposed changes point to other figures that are just as stark. For example, motor vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of death for U.S. teens, accounting for more than one in three fatalities, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just like anything else, you have to be careful on the farm,â&#x20AC;? Susan Lawrence said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let our children run all over unsupervised.

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s s e n h s e r f u o y e iv g Striving to ! s e ic r p w lo t a y t ie & var Saylor’s has been family owned & operated serving the Newville and surrounding communities since 1977.

We pride ourselves in bringing you, our loyal customers, the freshest and finest foods money can buy.

Saylor’s philosophy is to always give back to our local community!

Loaded Grocery Aisles

Full Line of Frozen Foods

Fresh Meat Department

Fresh Grab’n Go Deli Items

Fresh Produce Department

Expanded Hot Foods Bar

Deli with Storemade Favorites

Lisa’s Floral Shoppe

We look forward to you visiting us to relax and dine in our new restaurant area, enjoy the convenience and great savings throughout the store and experience the hometown feeling you’ve come to expect at

Saylor’s - Your “Hometown Proud” Supermarket.

37 Carlisle Road, Newville, PA 776-7551 Open: MOn.- Fri. 7aM-10pM; Sat. 7aM-9:30 pM; Sun. 8aM-6pM

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