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| Farmer planting fields. Photo courtesy of Pa. Game Commission |
Published in The Shippensburg News Chronicle
From: Pennsylvania Outdoors Writer Association, Journalist Bell Ferris
According to the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen and Conservationists that in their effort to stop any Sunday hunting The Pennsylvania Farm Bureau is threatening gun clubs, whose member shoot on Sundays or for that matter anyone wanting to shoot on their own property on Sunday.
According to their executive director farmers, hikers, horseback riders and others want to enjoy Sundays without hearing gunfire.
When I dealt with the Farm Bureau as a salesman, mostly what they did was sell high cost insurance and tires and wheels to farmers. Many farmers I spoke with in the course of doing business told me they bought insurance from other companies and they could buy tires and wheels for less money from other sources.
Apparently some farmers are members of the farm bureau, which probably means they buy insurance from them but I know farmers, who like to shoot on their farm on Sunday and several are members of local gun clubs that shoot on Sundays, too. I wonder if they know what their farm bureau is doing?
I do know that Sunday hunting is a hot issue and I haven’t made up my mind one way or the other about putting more pressure on a limited game animal resource but the Farm Bureau is definitely falling into the anti-hunting camp and farmers who are customers of the Farm Bureau need to discuss the whole issue with them before the legislature votes to ban Sunday shooting.
Sportsmen and conservationists have always supported farmers and most farmers are sportsmen and conservationists but if the Farm Bureau persists, shooters, who are also voters might withdraw their support for the next farm bill.
Pennsylvania Outdoors Writer Association, Journalist Bell Ferris
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