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Va. Farm Bureau Hits
Rising Food Costs
“Rising food costs are primarily the result of inflation which is being caused, for the most part, by governmental action," Robert B. Delano, President of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation, said here today. “Cockeyed govern mental actions are forcing the costs of almost everything coo sumers buy to increase, he continued. The Farm Bureau leader pointed out that the prices farmers are getting for their products are almost exactly what they were in 1947 while the costs of everything farmers must buy to produce their crops and livestock has almost doubled. The profits farmers make, after paying necessary expenses is less than it was twenty years ago.
“Farmers are consumers, too," Delano said, “And the things we buy are the first to feel the effects of inflation. We’ve been living with this problem for a long time. The farmers who are leaving their farms because they cantcontinue to farm at a loss are the victims of the same thing that’s beginning to happen to the housewives. It just took
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