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Show September 1975 i - FB Utah Farm Bureau News lauds for Nov. nine-da- y 1 length pheasant hunt Members of the state wildlife board have decided on a state-wid- e nine-da- y pheasant hunt, in accord with Farm Bureau recommendations. In Utah county, the season will last five days, and hunters will have 30 days on state and federal land. Private landowners will not have the option of extending the season to 30 days on their own property this year, as they have in some former years. Starting date for the pheasant season is November 1 in all areas. In an August 27 meeting at the division of wildlife resources headquarters in Salt' Lake city, the wildlife board also set the daily limit at two birds and maximum in possession at four birds. The board also made final decisions on length of season and other details concerning other upland game birds. Utah Farm Bureau Federation policy, as set by voting delegates last November, reads: To reduce damage to private property and to minimize stress on pheasant population, we favor a statewide nine-da- y pheasant hunt. Farm Bureau members are reminded that the new Utah hunter trespass law gives them a way to screen Page3 every hunter entering their land. By posting his property with No Trespassing signs or yellow fenceposts every quarter mile and by notifying the division of wildlife resources in writing at least a month before the start of any hunting season of his desire to enter the program, a farmer gains significant control over hunting on his land. When those conditions are met, each hunter entering the property must Farmland assessment changes allow more time to add new land Several important changes in the Farmland Assessment Act of 1969 help it to do better the job it was designed for to keep agricultural land in farm production. State legislators amended the act in the 1975 general session. One key change extends the sign-u- p deadline for putting new land under the act from the former October 1 to January 1. Applications will be received for 60 days after that w;th payment of a $25 late fee. Farmers and ranchers owning land in counties being this year will find that signing up their land will ted yield more benefits. Forms for this purpose are available from each county assessor. Property owners should review their assessments with the assessor to see what advantage they would gain by signing up their agricultural land. Legislators also changed some of the eligibiilty requirements. Gross in- - get a written permit from the farm operator first. If he fails to do so and is caught on the property by a conser- vation officer, he is automatically guilty of trespassing. The penalty is a mandatory $50 fine with no complaint having to be signed by the property owner. County Farm Bureau presidents have more information about the hunter trespass law and can issue permit books to farm and ranch operators. come required to qualify a man for the agricultural assessment was increased from $250 to $1000. A five-acminimum still applies for coverage, but smaller parcels of land not lying next to other farmland will still qualify if they are farmed along with other eligible acreage. Under past requirements, land had to have been farmed for at least five years to be eligible. That has been reduced to two years to ease the filing of new land. New amendments also establish an independent audit system for the act 'to insure proper enforcement and to prevent abuses by ag unemployment comp Two bills now being considered by a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee attempt to extend unemployment compensation to certain farms. One calls for coverage on any farm with four or more employees who worked during any 20 weeks or more in a calendar year, or which paid more than $5000 in wages during a calendar quarter. This bill would affect an 7 percent of farms but about of all hired farm workers. The other bill, reportedly backed labor unions, would by the AFL-CIextend unemployment coverage to all farms with one or more employees for any 20 days in a year, or having $1500 or more in wages in a calendar quarter. Farm Bureau opposes both bills on the basis of national policy established by voting delegates. That policy says, in part: Because of the difficult problems involved in the application (of unemployment compensation) to small farms and the employment of temporary and seasonal workers, we, oppose extension (of coverage) to agriculture until a workable, fiscally sound program is developed. two-thir- ed ds O . For farm improvement. non-farme- rs. HY? Federal bills call for exti-mat- re .. 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