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But as populations expand and the need for food increases at home and abroad, one wonders: What does the continuing loss of this country’s best farm lands portend for the future? How long will it be before the farm land loss severely cripples farm land production?
One conservationist puts the issue in sharp perspective: “Ten years from now, Americans should be as concerned over the loss of the nation’s prime and important farm lands as they are today over shortages of oil and gasoline.”
As prime farm land disappears, food is not the only loss. The quality of lives is diminished. There are garish signs and glaring storefronts where leaves once caught the rain and filtered the sunlight There is asphalt where fields and woods once beckoned and refreshed the spirit.
There is the loss, also, of
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