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to celebrate the economic and cultural contributions of the working men and women of American agriculture and to help all Americans gain a greater understanding of the need to keep this country’s food-producing system strong.
“We have a special reason for saluting Virginia’s farmers this year,” said Commissioner S. Mason Carbaugh of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. “Many farmers have weathered an exasperating year in 1986 with the drought, low prices for some commodities and the continued financial squeeze making life difficult on the
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