. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Cranberrytnan MTins 13 year old court case By JOAN HUMPHREY The Wisconsin Court of Appeals recently rejected an appeal by a group of property owners who claimed that cranberry grower William Zawistowski Jr. of Stone Lake was polluting Lake Sissabagama. The original suit was filed 13 years ago. The property owners claimed that phosphorus used as fertilizer ended up in the lake, feeding algae growth. The appeals panel said the assertions were based on eight year old fertilizer records. It also cited conflicting evidence on the amount
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Cranberrytnan MTins 13 year old court case By JOAN HUMPHREY The Wisconsin Court of Appeals recently rejected an appeal by a group of property owners who claimed that cranberry grower William Zawistowski Jr. of Stone Lake was polluting Lake Sissabagama. The original suit was filed 13 years ago. The property owners claimed that phosphorus used as fertilizer ended up in the lake, feeding algae growth. The appeals panel said the assertions were based on eight year old fertilizer records. It also cited conflicting evidence on the amount of fertilizer used. IRS MAKES NEW RULING ON FARM ESTATE TAXATION The Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation notes that the Internal Revenue Service now allows a farm estate to deduct the full indebtedness on special use valuation property, "providing the deceased farmer was personally liable on the ; Says the MFBF: "The new ruling is an important recognition that farming as a business has a very low return on ; It adds; "The intention of the i 'special use valuation' of farm real I estate was to encourage the continuity of family farming from one generation to the next, to prevent breakup for payment of taxes. "In the past, IRS has stipulated that if a farmer chose special use valuation, the full value of the property was not 'included' in the gross estate. Because of this, the farmer could not deduct the full amount of a mortgage in computing the estate ; FARM POPULATION CONTINUES TO DECLINE The Census Bureau reports that the nation's farm population continues to decline. Between 1980 and 1982. there was a loss of 431,000 farm residents. Today million people-one out of every 41 Americans -live on farms. The median age of the farm popu- lation is 35 years, compared to a national median age of 30. CORRECTION The article, "Storing Pesticides," in the February 1984 issue of CRAN- BERRIES, was based on materi
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