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other costs. At the same time, they encountered increasing competition from large multinationals attracted to agriculture by tax breaks.
Thus, in Virginia as elsewhere, the post-war era has seen displacement of people from the land as agriculture has consolidated into fewer and fewer hands. This loss of control over the land base has serious implications for our state.
For one thing, it means farm products cost the consumer more than they need to. Each year the Old Dominion buys $1.3 billion worth of food from other states and countries. Most of this money does not reach
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