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Mike Newberry, an Arlington, Georgia producer, asks decision makers not to put rural America at risk.
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Agriculture is in Newberry’s blood. The Southwest Georgian is a fourth generation cotton, corn, peanuts and beef cattle producer. Newberry, along with rural America, is waiting to see what may become of their livelihood.
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Newberry urges Congress to better understand how farm policy affects the rural economic engine.
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Don Phillips, manager of Southern Agricultural Services in Arlington, knows first hand how important farmers are to the local economy.
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According to the 2002 U.S. Census, about one of every three jobs in Calhoun County is agriculture-related while the market value of agricultural products sold in Georgia was just under $5 billion. And, according to the National Cotton Council, this nation’s food and fiber industries annually employ 25 million people, produce output valued at $3.5 trillion and account for 15 percent of U.S. Gross Domestic Product.
