There is a phenomenal statistic on the Chesapeake Bay, which I learned recently, which is that 99 percent of the cultivated acres in the Chesapeake Bay Area have at least some conservation practice being utilized.
Secretary Vilsack highlights conservation practices in the Chesapeake Bay area.
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Those safety nets are designed to keep people on the farm, and to keep them farming so they can do what every farmer that I know wants to do, which is to pass it on to the next generation.
What we need to do is be able to create additional ways in which profit centers and income sources can come from the farm.
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