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Va. farmers: Estate tax reform needed now

Time is running out for thousands of Virginia farm families worried about how they are going to pay estate taxes after Dec. 31.




Farm Bureau rep tells Congress proposed bay legislation could force out agriculture

Representing the state’s largest agricultural organization in front of Congress on Dec. 9, Wilmer Stoneman testified how proposed federal Chesapeake Bay legislation would impose a huge burden on farmers.



Mandatory bay regulations could shut down Virginia farms

If new legislation is passed reauthorizing the Chesapeake Bay Program, some Virginia farmers might have to close up shop.



Agricultural workers often hard to find

Finding good help seems to be a universal problem in the agriculture industry.



H-2A confusing but necessary for many producers

Many of Virginia’s agricultural producers could be out of business or forced to downsize if it weren’t for the federal H-2A program that allows foreign citizens to temporarily work on a U.S. farm.



‘We wanted three things. … We actually got all three’

Virginia farmers and their counterparts nationwide began signing up late last month for programs that under the new federal farm policy will deliver some certainty for the 2008 crop year.



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