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unfounded fears they may lose control of their land or a tradition of avoiding government programs and regulation in general.
Farmers who are part of the program talk of the benefits: they get rental and incentive payments for taking marginal streamside acreage out of production. They obtain free, or almost free, fencing, hardwood trees, warm season grasses and alternative water facilities.
The program helps to increase land value. Farmers get free technical advice and the program helps take care of certain conservation maintenance matters free..
Where else, they say, can a farmer obtain funding that also helps the local economy by providing employment to certain trades in Rappahannock County such as fence builders, landscapers and well diggers.
More importantly, with the increase in populations downstream, all the way to the Chesapeake Bay, it is likely the
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