20—Lancaster Fanning. Saturday. May 4.1968
Suburbia's Need For *
Land Poses Problems
To State And Nation
As you read those words on
evergrowing suburbia is nibbling,
away at Pennsylvania's dwindl
ing farmland acreage, according,
to Lcland Bull. Pa. Secretary of
Agriculture.
Suburbia, with its fondness for
huge shopping centers and indi
vidual homes built on large lots,
has a ravenous appetite, especi
ally for the level lands which
predominate on many farms.
It is estimated that m the past
17 years three million acres of
'he state’s farmlands have been
lost to real estate erosion.
Supermarket doors give auto
matic welcomes and bowling
balls crash into plastic pins on
the land John Rumberger once
farmed.
Meadow lands, formerly lunch
elands for dairy cows, now sup
port turnpike concrete
Where cornfields once rustled
m autumn breezes, apartments
land guard over lessei build
ngs.
This gobbling up of agncultur
d land is nothing new. It's been
toing on for years However, the
oace at which productive farm
land has been converted to other
uses has accelerated as our af
fluence has grown
What’s the solution to the prob
lem?
It seems unAmencan to tell a
farmer cultivating prime agri
cultural land, about to be en
gulfed by suburbia, that he can't
sell his land to a developer
especially if he is offered $15,000
an acre
Let’s make the situation more
acute Suppose the farmer offer
ed the attractive price has no
children and is getting too old to
iarm What then?
There are some who advocate
laws which would forbid selling
agriculture land for purposes
other than farming They would
have the state purchase the land
and then lease it to someone who
vould continue to farm the land
in question
The problem of land usage has
been a vexing one not only to
Pennsylvania, but to California,
Connecticut, New Jersey and
New York, to name a few
Thus far we Americans have
always been able to produce
more food than we have needed
Now it appears that we are
hastening the day when we will
have insufficient land to raise
the food vital to our existence.
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