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By R(x;f,r Piantadosi Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Would saving the bay mean losing Rappahannock cattle farming?
Since the Obama administration made cleaning up the waters of the Chesapeake a high priority and re-energized the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPAi Chesapeake Bay Program earlier this year, the issue has troubled many farmers in the bay’s vast watershed - including those few dozen here who run mostly lowdensity, fitfully profitable livestock and hay operations amid the hills and headwaters of the watershed’s westernmost edge.
Yesterday the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation tVFBF), meeting for its annual convention in Richmond, held a press conference to vow “to
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