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ByRICKCAGAN
and PATTIE NESBITT-HABIB
A recent state government study confirms what farmers in Virginia already know. The Great American Farm Crisis has come home to the Old Dominion.
Unless something is done, as many as 4,000 farm families in our state may go out of business in the next two years. That represents' an annual decline of 3.5 percent, a rate greater than during the Great Depression.
But aren’t the farmers simply victims of their own greed, having taken advantage of ready credit to buy more land than they could work? Can small farmers
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