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Enhancement Program (CREP) to pay landowners to plant buffer zones along streams. You can see one such planting on the left-hand side of the road as you leave Sperryville headed to Woodville. They are easy to spot because the young trees and bushes are planted in green plastic grow tubes.
Another bit of subterfuge is the faux panacea that all farming would be friendly if it was only “organic.” Wine that is labeled “organic” under the legal definition is made from grapes that have been liberally doused with copper and sulfur—while that in no way affects the wine, you would not want to eat that with your cereal. And composted chicken manure, an organic fertilizer, leeches into streams and causes algae blooms in the far away Chesapeake Bay.
Residents of Rappahannock County cannot on the one-hand complain about encroaching development in Culpeper County and on the other hand attack farming as environmen
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