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to control both energy and land use.”
Opening speaker Dallas Miner, author and land use expert, pictured the plight of the farmer with a simple story of three brothers who inherited a million dollars each. The first one used his money to go into the real estate business, the second one used his money to set up a travel bureau, and the third one decided to keep on farming. . .” until the money ran out. . . ”
House Delegate Andy Guest echoed the same sentiments when he said that farming will remain a free enterprise only as long as it is practical. Farmers will not remain farmers and keep their land in farming if they cannot make any money and if they are taxed out of existence. But, Guest warned, government can do nothing for you without taking something from you.
A PANEL discussion on the future of farming in the Piedmont area included A. J. Boyle, Culpeper County Planning Commission Chairman; Bill Speiden, Orange County dairyman; B. Powell Harrison, Board Chairman of the Piedmont Environmental Council; Frank Walker, Madison County dairyman and former Planning Commission Chairman; and Joe Keesee, Culpeper banker. Murat Williams was moderator.
Featured speaker at noon was Congressman Kenneth Robinson, who spoke of impending legislation concerning agriculture, and briefly of the problems in United States Department of Agriculture at the present. “The phone rings,” he said, “but no one answers.”
Many of the top jobs in USDA have not yet been filled. Prompt action is necessary, however, as the 1973 farm legislation expires this year. Sen. Herman Talmadge has drawn up a farm omnibus bill
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