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VIRGINIANS concerned about saving farming in their state—which, while one of the most valuable of the state’s “industries” always seems to take a back seat in politicians’ appraisals of what the state needs—have an ally in Jim McHale, the former Secretary of Agriculture for Pennsylvania who now serves as Governor Milton Shapp’s Special Coordinator for Rural Planning and Programs. And McHale’s ideas might be profitably studied by all persons interested in halting present trends toward agricukural “bigness,” loss of valuable farmland, and the continued flight of people to the cities.
In McHale’s view, the key is the family farm, as opposed to giant “agri-business” combinations which attempt to control a given commodity market, from production to marketing, and the consumer-take -the hindmost. In an interview
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