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Christopher Parrish was Rappahannock's representative at the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation's 71st Annual Convention in Richmond Dec. 2-5.
#Mr. Parrish said the three-day conference "is an ordeal" covering a variety of topics of interest to farmers, but he has been going for several years, and he always sees the same faces, "just getting older."
He wonders if more younger farmers would attend if the convention were shortened to two days. "Three days is a long time to be away from the farm,” he said.
Most of the time is spent debating resolutions on Farm Bureau positions on matters that may come before the General Assembly. The Farm Bureau also has people who monitor the assembly during the session keeping track of legislation of interest to farmers, Mr. Parrish noted.
He said farmers are concerned about real estate taxes. "Basically they want to maintain land use taxation," Mr. Parrish said. He said in Fairfax and Prince William counties real estate taxes have forced farmers to sell out, but that is "not as much a problem in Rappahannock County.”
He said another issue to come up this year was a request to have an open season on Canada geese. "They are no longer migratory," he said. "There have been cases when they have given salmonella to cattle and they died. That can escalate."
He said the hottest issue for the
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