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Show DAILY HERALD wk UTAH VALLEY EDITION APRIL 23, 2006 www.heraldextra.com > $1.50 YOUR TOWN ‘ YOUR NEIGHBORS * YOUR NEWSPAPER State OKs toll lane fee SALT LAKE CITY — Solo commuters will soon be able to buytheir wayinto car poollanes on Interstate 15. Utah's Transportation Commis- sion on Friday gavethe greenlight toa plan that allowsdriversto paya monthly $50 fee for access to highoccupancyvehicle lanes, which are currently reserved for buses or other vehicles carrying two or morepeople. Theidea is to control congestion by moving moredrivers into the unde- rused HOV lanes. The Utah Depart- mentof Transportation estimates the permit program could increase traffic speeds up to 10 mph during peak JEREMY HARMON /Daily Heralc Matt Jarvis works with his sheep in Palmyra on April 12. Jarvis’s family has worked the samepieceof landsince his great-grandfatherstarted raising cattle in the area. The.family has raised sheep since the 1940s. , R PRESSURE though that number couldincreaseif the program is successful. Stickers could be ready for pur- chase online by July, after UDOT BUT ST LLWORK repaints freeway lanes and puts up newsigns, said Randy Park, UDOT RegionII director. See TOLL, Al0 Utah County’s farmers cling tenaciously to tradition as their numbers shrink Katie Ashton DAILY HERALC crambling upclose to the three:foot- high wirefences, a group of secondgraders jockeyforposition. A lambcatches 8-year-old Kelton Kuhni'seye. “I've never seen one up close before,” Kuhnisaid. Schoolchildren roamed the dust @ 1992 know. Kevin Anderson,47, has beenraising dairy cattle in Benjamin all his life. Working with twoofhis broth- «696 2002 the Farm Bureau. The duting is conducted every year for seven daysto teach thousands of elementary students the importance of agriculture. Withhis interest piqued, Kuhnisaid his field trip has taught him lot. “They teach you about things and youget to pet the animals,” he said. Althoughexcited while at the farm, most of those studentswill never be involved in farming again. “We're able to il 700 cattle on 600 acres. But the simplicity of raising and selling dairy cattle isn't whatit Kevin Anderson ingtheir ownheifers to cut downoncosts and Anderson's make a living \sedto be when he first took father’s business, atit. It's tough overhis which beganin 1910 when his sometimes.” grandfather started dairying. only time, on a farm,” said Dean Miner, a USU Extension agent. Fulltimefarmers in Utah County are doing every“ thing they can to keep their land, family businesses and livelihoods afloat amid a rapidly changing culture. Farm acreage has shrunk by roughly 30 percentin the last decade — about 100,000 acres. And fewer than 10 percent of Utah County farmersgoall-out and farm operation is having a harder time finding dairies to sell his heifers to. In addition to trying to work aroundthe new dairy market trend of retainae heifers, Andersonsaid the market he has been sending his dairy cattle to has shifted. For years he hadbeenshippinghis cattle to southern California, but the demand for Anderson's business has moved east toward Idaho. See FARMS, A8& 2,046 TER 266 168 MARKETVALUE OF AGRICULTURE PRODUCTSSOLD(IN $1,000): VS 87,662 Ted Anthony THE ASSOCIATED PRESS stately stone hall, Yale University flutist Wang Mingzhu,solerr > in a glimmering black dress yed herinstrument quieiiy, deliberately, pitch-perfect. A halfblock away, hundreds of agitated demonstrators in T-shirts and headbands banged snare drums and chanted for the demise of the Chinese Communist Party. The scene, moments before China's president spoke at one of America’s most venerable campuses, was a perfect met for the two narratives that define to be Utah attorney MARKET VALUE OF AGRICULTURE PRODUCTSSOLD, AVG./FARM: EE $51,608 $57,187 SOURCE: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service But this was the United States, bully pulpit and explain China — its motivations,its goals,its history — to America, China’s biggest export market and biggest potential rival. modern China — control vs. chaos, the mild poker face in the cordoned-off spotlight as roiling masses gather outside, volatile and unpredictable. In China,of course, the masses can't protest against the state. There are three candidatesin the Utah County attorney racebut only twoviews of the waytheoffice * currentlyoperates — it is either efgrowth andfighting crime,orit’s struggling to maintain the status quo because of poor leadership and low morale. Twochallengers, both of them prosecutorsin the County Attorney's Office, havefiled to unseat fourterm incumbent Kay Bryson.Jeff Buhman has beenin the office for nine years, and Curtis Larson — who also sought the office in 2002 — has beenin the ‘office for 11 years. “The question we have to belly of the beast that Hu Jintao sweet-talking. ask the Chinese leaderis, wasOnbusy his first official visit as his nation’s.leader; Hu did his utmost ‘Whoare you?"” last weekto exploit his fleeting Harold Hongju Koh u,>n of Yale’s law school, making a pun of Hu’s name Alan Choate DAILY HERA fectively meeting the challenges of 117,004 Hu’svisit carefully calibratedto tell the partial storyof today’s China NEW HAVEN,Conn. — In the Three hope AVERAGE ACRES PER FARM Large-scale dairies are rais- Dairy farmer Q&A County’s NUMBEROF FARMS ers, Anderson manages about and gravel pathwaysrecently at HarwardFarms in Springville during Farm Field Days, hosted by Utah State University Extension and “For manyit’s their first time, and perhaps their UTAH COUNTY FARMS full time, said Lori Jones, Utah Wasatch County executive director for the Farm Service Agency. That numberis dwindling yearly as well. But for those few, keeping the family tradition goingis all that they know — and all they want to travel times, because capacity will increasein othertravellanes. Underthe plan UDOT will convert a 38-mile stretchof I-15 — from Orem to the north endof Salt Lake City — for HOVpermit use. Initially 600 permit stickerswill be available, al: “More and more Americans are following with interest China’s progress and development. Understanding leads to,trust,” Hu said Friday.“I hope this will help you gain a better understanding WWW.HERALDEXTRA.COM, — CALL375-5103TO SUBSCRIBE See HU, Al0 All three are seeking the Republican nominationfor the office. Delegates to the GOP countyconvention will vote on the nomination April 29. Because the three men are the only See ATTORNEY, A4 INSIDE OURTOWNS Bt es BUSINE SPO OPINIONS OBITUARIES wSTORY MOVIES WEATHER 6 aa 1 thunder storms HIGH 66 etl AS : |