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ilfong elected WVFB president again
Lerfull )cahontas County farmer
I by tl t s Wilfong has been se-
wen trot tl by the voting delegates at
resent West Virginia Farm Bureau
nbersl =B) Annual Meeting, held
lous va lember 7-9 at the
en est Im/Flatwoods Days Inn, to
;. It hem into 2004.
ing in I s will be Wilfong's sev-
ressive | consecutive term as presi-
3obbie J iof the state's largest agri-
lt Kellet: iral organization, having
pl first elected in November
t7 He has served on the
Board of Directors since
representing Region VIII,
in MR __is comprised of Pocahon-
tion or N _
emocrati
',e mem
', 653-47J
BurgesS, State Open Forum
om Jad 4-H/FFA Lamb Tail
helia BI Docking Policy
visiting statewide public meeting
ontas rning the current 4-H/FFA
dth the b Tail Docking Policy will
'.ld on Thursday, December
the Assembly Hall of
idboO Ion's Mill. WVU Exten-
and WVU Davis College
r • " iy will present the current
irglnla; tail policy for WV youth
cing L exhibitors and provide
aation on the research
a copY. which the policy is based.
open forum will allow for
.,s tax) tlents, questions and con-
I from the public. The
$,
Inc.
lg will begin at 3 p.m
a Ave.
aore information contact
Woloshuk (293-6131 ext.
l) or Jennifer Williams
h 00131 ext 4239>
, n.O, Virginia Bucks Gun
Physin Fact Sheet
-44( bucks gun season began
flay and will continue until
ervical C. 3Ilber 6 and is open in all
Screenir Plan tries except Logan, Mingo,
vain )dwell and Wyoming.
y. s. concurrent anflerless deer
• s a. .- will be available ha those
,,embe 51 counties on private
Only during the two-weeks
s gun season. This is not a
enc] ters choice" season, be-
.' hunters must have pur-
,nts the proper antlerless deer
i303 e for the county in which
hunting. The last day' W
an additional deer gun
glass RG/RRG license) is
ber 23.
deer must be field tagged-
oked in within 72 hours
e of kill or within 24
e close of the season,
lever comes first. Addi-
deer may not be taken un-
: previously taken deer have
checked. Only one deer
[. • taken per day during the
Season.
Proximately 350,000 li-
! hunters will be in West
Ii ia, s woods during this
2002, deer hunters in West
harvested 96,555 bucks
the two-week buck sea-
only 3 percent from
harvest of 99,380. The
counties were Raadolph
Preston (3,514),
(3,501), Ritchie
- Greenbrier (3,234),
(3,200), Lewis (2,919),
(2,714), Braxton
and Wetzel (2,657).
wildlife biologists are
a slightly lower deer
year, largely due to
antlerless deer harvest
designed to reduce the
i in counties that were over-
In addition, poor
:(food) and severe winter
ilions in 2002 affected fawn
Val and deer troductiou.
ast production this year is
red. Hunters who have
their we-season scouting
iiave located food stmrces for
MII have the best chance of
'hunting in West Virgi-
irates a total annnal eco-
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.top in at NAPA, .
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_of your CBRa. dio
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We will get ItJ Call
6250 or 456-4432
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REMZNDER
Notice: Deadline
in The
for
Legals & Dis'play
In Memories is
@ 5:00 p.m.
i ore
" ms, Monroe, Mercer, Raleigh,
Greenbrier, Summers and
Fayette Counties. Before being
elected president, he was vice
president of the WVFB for six
years. During the last twenty
years, he has also served as Po-
cahontas County Farm Bureau
president, intermittently.
Wilfong is a beef cattle,
sheep, hay and corn producer.
He, along with his father Al-
bert, farm 4,100 acres (2,600
owned and 1,500 rented) under
the partnership of d.b.a Wilfong
Farms.
In addition to his Farm Bu-
reau leadership responsibilities,
he is also on the American
Farm Bureau Board of Directors,
Corporate Board of Directors for
Southern States Co-op, Inc.,
WV Cattlemen's Association
Board of Directors, and the
Board of Directors for Pocahon-
tas Producers Livestock Market.
Wilfong has received the Master
Farmer Award and the FFA Star
Farmer of WV Award.
Wilfong, his wife, Linda, and
their three children reside in
Dunmore where they are mem-
bers of the New Hope Church of
the Brethren.
nomic impact of $248 million,
much of it in the rural areas of
the state that depend upon the
deer seasons for a large portion
of their annual income.
Sunday gun hunting during
the bucks season is legal in 10
counties on private land only:
Hancock, Brooke, Ohio,
Marshall, Wetzel, Jefferson,
Clay, Wayne, Boone and Lin-
coln. The only Sunday that falls
during the bucks gun season is
November 30.
Hunters are required to wear
at least 400 square inches of
blaze orange as an outer garment
for visibility and safety.
In 2002 there were nine inju-
ries and five fatalities reported in
West Virginia during the bucks
gun season. Three of the fatali-
ties were the result of heart at-
tacks, one was the result of an
accidental self-inflicted gun
shot, and one was the result of
falling from a tree stand. Only
one injury was the result of one
hunter shooting another, mis-
taking him for game.
Hunters should be familiar
with the 2003 Hunting Regula-
tions brochure available at all
license agents or online at
www.wvdnr.gov
Hunting licenses may be pur-
chased online at any time and
printed out on a home computer
printer, Go to the goWILD!
Web site at www.wvhunt.com,
fill out the application, and pur-
chase it over a secure server
with a credit card.
Hunters who wish to donate
deer meat to the Hunters Help-
ing the Hungry program, which
distributes deer meat through the
Mountaineer Food Bank and
Huntington Food Bank, should
call (304) 558-2771 or visit the
DNR Web site at
www.wvdnr.gov to find a par-
ticipatmg meat processor.
NOTICE
DEER CREEK FARM IS CLOSED TO
• HUNTING "HUNTING WITH DOGS
"TRESPASSING
VIOLATOR5 WILL BE PROSECUTED
DEER CREEK FARM
Jim Ryder, Jr., Mgr.
IJ¢ t0ul!lmtm tgtmt--November 2 ?, 2003--Page /
3farm
Signup Under Way
for Landmark
Farm Insurance Program
Commissioner of Agricul-
ture Gus R. Douglass is encour-
aging West Virginia's farmers
to consider enrolling in a new
insurance program that aims to
guarantee farm income follow-
ing a summit of farm and
insurance officials at th6 Guthrie
Agriculture Center in mid-
November.
The Adjusted Gross Reve-
nue (AGR) Lite Program is
backed by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture's Risk Manage-
ment Agency (USDA-RMA}
and is available in a dozen
northeastern states traditionally
considered to have been under-
served by the USDA crop
insurance programs.
"We all face some level of
risk, but the livelihood of farm-
ers is at the mercy of factors
beyond human control," said
Commissioner Douglass. "Too
little moisture, or, as we experi-
enced this year, too much mois-
ture, can have severe conse-
quences on the fs of our
farm families. This program
provides insurance against the
bad years."
According to Billy Burke,
Risk Management Coordinator
for the Department of Agricul-
ture, this program is a powerful
tool for West Virginia farmers.
"We are in the process of
training all the point people in
the agriculture offices so that
they can answer the basic
questions," said Burke. "The
insurance agents are also becom-
ing familiar with the program
so that they can begin writing
the policies."
Burke added that the pro-
gram will be sold only through
private insurance companies
--not through any government
agencies--and that varying lev-
els of coverage will be available
at different premium rates. He
also noted that signup for crop
year 2004 must be completed by
the end of January, but that reg-
istration would be ongoing for
subsequent crop years.
The program has been
designed to be a "streamlined,
whole-farm revenue protection
program that can be used as a.
stand-alone coverage, or in addi-
tion to other individual crop
insurance policies," according to
Gene Gantz, who represented
USDA-RMA at the Guthrie
meeting.
"The premium cost will
vary depending on what their
revenue history is, depending on
what levels of coverage they
Kids will be kids. But emergendes can strike anyone,
anytime. That's why we've expanded Greenbrior Valley
Medical Center's. Emergency Department. It's part
of our S9 million renovation, which also includes a
buy, what rates of payment they
choose and the amount of diver-
sification they have in their
farming operation," he said.
"But what they will generally
find is that this is the lowest
cost revenue-type coverage pro-
tection that they can get."
Federally backed fnsurance
programs typically have catered
to Midwestern row crops rather
than the livestock-intensive
agriculture seen in the Mountain
State. This new program is a
monumental step toward pro-
tecting agriculture outside the
gram belt.
"Our crop mix did not corre-
spond to the crop insurance pro-
ducts offered by the Risk Man-
agement Agency," said Tom
McConnell, with the West Vir-
ginia University Extension
Service. "So what this will do
is offer 20,000 farmers the
opportunity to insure the
adjusted gross revenue. Think
how easy that isthere're no
yields to chase down. All you
do is take specific lines off the
Schedule F of your 1040
income tax forms and have a
five-year history and you can
insure your adjusted gross
income."
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