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A panel of speakers started on the day’s talk by giving their versions of the problem, and their versions of some possible answers. Chairman E.P. Luke of the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors, called for a “systems approach’’ to the problem, weighing considerations of land, labor, c^ft^ ital and education in a seapen for solutions. N
“We can spend a4oi of time on planning discussion,” said Luke, “but unless all of this is tied together we’re not going to have any viable agriculture in this district.”
Frank S. Walker, a farmer and member of the Madison County Planning District, tried to envision the immediate and relatively near future of farming in the Northern and Central Piedmont areas of Virginia, and his outlook was mixed. He saw continuing pressures for development and transformation of the area, and he saw a continuation of a trend whereby “we’re being polluted with people.”
But, eventually, he predicted, people will recognize that “farming land is as necessary as having land for construction, roads and industrial and commercial areas. ’ ’ At the end of the cycle, perhaps by the next 15-20 years, “the land will be even more firmly protected for farming and farming alone, with the possibility of more federal controls being very real,” said Walker.
Phillip Irwin of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection, asserted that in this
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