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BOOK 9 PAr-'R09 <br />(3) increasingly, the trend in farm areas is toward fewer and <br />larger farms which, while not necessarily leading to increases <br />in production, decreases the stability of farm communities, <br />especially as absentee ownership by land speculators, large <br />agri-business enterprises, and other such entities replaces, <br />family farm operations which traditionally support a deversified <br />local economy, valued community insticuti6ns, and an agricultural <br />community based upon family farms; <br />(4) a strong family farm system of agriculture provides a widely <br />dispersed mechanism of food and fiber production and marketing to : <br />insure continuous, local,reasonably-priced food supplies and an <br />active demand for secondary services in rural communities; <br />(5) government policies, including price supports, taxes, loans, <br />marketing programs, soil and water conservation programs; research, <br />and education have a direct and substantial effect on the development, <br />continuation, and maintenance of productive family farms; <br />(6) as family farms have dwindled in number and expanded in size, <br />the economy of rural communities has declined in part due to the <br />impact of government policies which have contributed to (a) insta- <br />bility of farm prices, (b) rising costs of land, (c) high costs and <br />scarcity of energy-intensive farming inputs, (d) marketing problems, <br />(e) limited financing for small and moderately-sized family farms, <br />and (f) research, technology, training, and education inappropriate <br />to the conservation of soil and water quality and the development <br />and maintenance of a productive family farm system of agriculture; <br />(7) our agricultural land is a natural resource which has multiple <br />uses including food and fiber production, habitat for fish and wild- <br />life, a source of open space and clean water for public health, and <br />a provider of vegetative cover necessary for the maintenance of <br />clean air and the revitalization of a productive soil base; and <br />(8) the Department of Agriculture needs to provide leadership by <br />establishing family farm priorities, changing current programs, and <br />establishing new programs in order to improve the quality of life <br />of small and moderately-sized family farmers, to encourage the <br />continuation of small and moderately-sized family farms, to create <br />opportunities for the expansion of a family farming system of <br />agriculture, and to support viable rural communities. <br />BE 17 FURTHER RESOLVED that <br />seek every assistance from JAMES B. HUNT, JR., Governor, and JAMES A. GRAHAM, <br />North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, to actively support this resolution <br />by personally testifying before members of the United States Congress and the <br />United States Secretary of Agriculture, ?IIt. BOB BERGLAND. . <br />IN WITNESS VH EREOF and pursuant to the authority of <br />this resolution is duly recorded this <br />day of 19 <br />NORTH CAROLINA, LEE COUNTY <br />for registration on the---J 0.......day <br />Presented <br />of.... .-...1991_ at X. 6.P.-_M, <br />.-s-. <br />recorded in BooA-.._.c1......... ...page <br />Pattie W. N:cGilvary, Register of Deeds <br />
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