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heritance laws, which are designed to make it easier for family farms to pass from generation to generation, but while asserting that “the most valuable commodity in this land is the land,” he reiterated his opposition to attempts to enact federal land use controls.
More than anything else, however, said Congressman Robinson, Americans must rid themselves of the notion that “we have t a boundless supply of land—we have no land to waste. We need a greater land consciousness...”
Dr. Burkwood Farmer, chief economist for the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Commerce, spoke next, making a strong plea for enactment of enabling legislation to allow the creation of tax-sheltering agricultural districts in Virginia, a concept pioneered by the state of New York.
Farmer said he thinks the likelihood for passage of such legislation by the current session of the legislature is “good.”
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