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and advice to farmers and homeowners would be reduced even more, and Extension programs to protect the Chesapeake Bay and other natural resources would also be hurt.
Reseach programs at Virginia Tech would also lose $2.(> million under Wilder’s plan, slowing efforts to find alternatives to pesticides and new crops for Virginia farmers.
For every $1 million spent on research, rural Virginia gains more than $10 million in increased agricultural and forestry profits, observed Dr. Andy Swiger. dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech.
The VDACS budget would be slashed $2.5 million in each year of the next biennium, severely straining that agency’s mission to promote food safety, inspect scales and gas
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