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“If the soil of the district is not particularly good for development, it’s excellent for agriculture. The band of yellow (on the slide map) that runs from Madison right up through northern Fauquier is some of the best crop land in the world. This is also an area that’s likely to receive a substantial amount of growth in the future.”
“THIS cropland is valuable to the district, not so much because of the number of people employed, because farmers don’t employ a lot, but in terms of the dollars put into the economy. I was talk- - ing to the manager of Beauregard Farms in Culpeper and he said that their farm, plus the farm they own in Rappahannock County, put over $200,000 a year ipto the district economy, in wages, and purchases of feed and equipment, not including capital improvements. Of course, agriculture is also important in that it’s a $21 billion dollar a year export for the United States, dollars which are badly needed to pay for imports like oil.
“There’s also the problem that as good agricultural land goes into development, less productive land is brought into agriculture, which raises the cost of production, the cost of the food to the consumer and increases the cost of soil conservation programs...
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