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“THERE must be a future for farming in the Piedmont,” said Irwin, noting that land here is as good as anywhere for orchards, cattle and certain crop?. He saw grave dangers in the vast, centralized farms of the Midwest, and called for more efforts to protect the viability of decentralized, • diversified farming of the type now found in Piedmont Virginia.
\ Ray Dilley, editor of the Piedmont Virginian, wondered about the effectiveness of planning. Too much of the planning efforts in Virginia, he thought, seem suspiciously oriented toward development, not preservation, especially a state-mandated necessity for master plans for every county in the state. “I’m suspicious,” he said, “of such a directive coming for a state legislature dominated as it is by real estate interests and development lawyers.”
Aubrey Lee, a developer and member of the Orange County planning commission, called for a delicate balance on the part of public planners, to make decisions which would tend to save farming, cm the one hand, while at the same time being careful “not to encroach oir th^raedsroftlrerpeople. ’ ’
Robert C. Edwards, another developer from Orange County, and a member of the Board of Supervisors, cited a hatful of statistics which he thought justified a need for greater industrial development efforts. Said Edwards:
“I SEE the future of farming this way: The pressures are for past trends (of_ development) to
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