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Re: Farmers and Conservation

At 01:09 PM 8/31/00 -0500, Ed and Gale wrote:
>I find it a little ironic that farmers will sell readily to any suburban
>developer and will scream bloody murder about the demise of family farms
>when a refuge or park is established. If farmers really wanted to save
>farmland, they shouldn't have been so greedy when the subdivision developers
>and mall developers were handing out the big checks.

That's a bit of a generalization.  It's not necessarily the same
farmer engaging in both halves of that hypocrisy.

If you really want to eliminate reasons why farmers sell large
tracts to developers, work towards eliminating your state's property tax.

- John

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