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The American Farmland Trust applauded Congress for passing a farm bill that will for the first time £IStJ>rovide federal matching funds to state and local farmland protection programs. On March 22 President Clinton said he would sign the bill, clearing the last hurdle facing the legislation.
...I; AFT, a national farmland conservation group based in Washington, hailed the farm bill provision as a histone and long overdue recognition by Congress of the need for more federal support of state and local programs that protect agricultural land from rampant development. More than one million acres of productive farmland are now being lost annually to development, two acres every minute of everyday.' ™ AFT President Ralph Grossi praised the President and congressional and gubernatorial supporters
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