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EVERYTHING from Agricultural Districts to Zero Population Growth was brought into the discussion at the second Farm Conference sponsored by the Piedmont Environmental Council, the V. P. I. Extension Service and the Rappahannock-Rapidan Planning District, held last Saturday at Graves Mountain Lodge near Syria. Nearly half of those attending were farmers, and half of the farmers attending were full-time farmers.
Former Ambassador Murat Williams presided. In his opening remarks he stated that the world population is now over four billion; by 1985 it will be five billion, and by the year 2000 it will be eight billion. Since the United States is now feeding nearly half of the world, the task looming ahead is enormous, particularly in the face of the fact that we are losing valuable farmland to other uses each year.
Frank Walker, Madison County dairyman, put it another way. One acre, he said, is “consumed” by each four person increase in the population. With a projected 1.8 million increase in population in the Washington Metropolitan area by the year 2000, this translates to a consumption of 300,000 acres of Virginia land by that time.
Walker noted a “jurisdictional hodgepodge” that will take a real landmark decision somewhere along the way to cut across state boundaries to control the use of land. “Nobody,” he said, “wants the Feds to get into the land use business, but let’s face it, they are in and they must be in. Perhaps the same agency ought
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