Paul Zittel

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  www.nyfb.org/Grassroots/grass0406/WC.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/1/2006    Last Visited: 3/14/2007  

  New York's system for workers' compensation, mandatory insurance that covers on-the-job injuries, has employers paying some of the highest premiums in the country while employees receive the lowest benefits, said Paul Zittel, New York Farm Bureau vice president.
  
  Zittel, an owner of Amos Zittel & Sons Inc. greenhouse and vegetable farm in Eden, said his annual workers' comp bill is $42,000, or about 7 percent of his total payroll.
  
  "It's a very needed and, by theory, a well-designed program.But the money is not getting back to the employees," he said.

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  Panelists will include: Paul Zittel- Amos Zittel & Sons, Judy Flint- NY FarmNet, George Lamont- Lamont Fruit Farms, Jim & Carol Doolittle- Frontenac Point Vineyard, Craig Yunker- CY Farms/Batavia Turf, Matt Ryen- Lacy Katzen, LLP, Doug Dwyer- Critters Unlimited, Larry Van De Valk- LEAD New York, Larry Atkinson- USDA, Ed Gallagher- Dairylea, Inc., and Luke Brubaker- Brubaker Farms.

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  www.farmbureau.com/Grassroots/grass0407/fungus.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/1/2007    Last Visited: 12/9/2007  

  Last fall, in his efforts to educate legislators about the danger phytophthora poses, New York Farm Bureau vice president Paul Zittel gave State Senators Catharine M. Young, R-Olean, and William T. Stachoswki, D-Buffalo, a tour of ruined vegetable fields in Eden Valley.
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  In 2005, Zittel lost over half of his high value pepper crop, and in 2006, the losses continued despite a near perfect growing season.
  
  "We weren't devastated because we had swapped some land with a neighboring dairy farmer," said Zittel, who operates Amos Zittel & Sons Inc. on 200 acres in Eden with two brothers, two sons and two nephews.
  
  Using trickle irrigation, they can produce more than 1,700 per bu. per acre, and they use plastic on about 100 acres.Zittel's alternative crops of cabbage, sweet corn and lettuce don't generate the same income per acre.
  
  "We know in the future it's going to get worse because growers in New Jersey and Michigan have told us so," he added."Unless we take action this year, we're on a collision course for our specialty, high dollar value vegetables in New York, " Zittel said.

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  www.farmbureau.com/Grassroots/grass0307/Young.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/1/2007    Last Visited: 12/9/2007  

  Last fall, Young took a tour of western New York farms with New York Farm Bureau vice president Paul Zittel, who has made phytophthora a pet cause.
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  During that tour, Zittel showed many examples of how root rot is talking a toll on agriculture.
  
  "We need to do some research and development to nip it in the bud, pun intended," she said.

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  www.farmbureau.com/Grassroots/grassroots1006/Canada.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/1/2006    Last Visited: 12/9/2007  

  New York was represented by President John Lincoln, Vice President Paul Zittel, Director of Public Policy Pat Hooker, and National Affairs Coordinator Bob Hokanson.
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  New York Farm Bureau Vice President Paul Zittel said that "after two days of talks, the similarities of problems that we both face was very evident.

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  www.farmbureau.com/Grassroots/grass0107/regions.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2007    Last Visited: 12/9/2007  

  Both Herkimer County and Oswego County hosted New York Farm Bureau Vice President Paul Zittel as guest speaker.

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  Published on: 12/8/2006    Last Visited: 3/14/2007  

  Delegates at the meeting re-elected Paul Zittel from Erie County to serve as vice president.Zittel is a vegetable grower from Eden.

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  10NBC / WHEC TV-10 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/27/2006    Last Visited: 3/28/2006  

  "The American people do not want to do this type of labor," New York Farm Bureau Vice President Paul Zittel said.Zittel has a vegetable farm in Erie County.Every year he hires 30 men from Mexico during the growing season.He says paperwork is easily copied, and it's hard to know who's here legally and who's not."What we need to do is have a mechanism to where these workers are made legal," Zittel said.

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  Board representatives elected, New York Farm Bureau,... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2007    Last Visited: 11/30/2008  

  Delegates at the meeting re-elected Paul Zittel from Erie County to serve as vice president. Zittel is a vegetable grower from Eden.

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  Buffalo News - Dry spell keeps worried area farmers on... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/20/2002    Last Visited: 7/20/2002  

  Paul Zittel, owner and operator of Amos Zittel and Sons in Eden, said he is using trickle irrigation on 65 of the farm's 180 acres.Trickle irrigation involves covering the plants with plastic so they require half the usual amount of water.
  
  "We're just irrigating and irrigating and irrigating, and we can't keep up with it," he said.
  
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  The problems with crops may also impact dairy farms, Zittel said.Feed corn for cattle is not growing to its normal size due to the drought.In addition, he said the later hay harvests may be poor without rain.Dairy farms may have less food for their cattle as a result, Zittel said.

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