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Published: November 04, 2009 09:13 am    print this story  

Agriculture remains important

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Beginning today and running through Thursday at the Stanly County Agri-Civic Center, nearly 800 third graders will have the opportunity to learn about life on the farm and how better to protect the environment at the 5th Annual Agriculture Awareness Day. The event will run from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. each day.

Visitors to the event are asked to park in the front parking lot of the Agri-Civic Center.

While the county’s third graders will be gaining understanding of the agriculture lifestyle for the next three days, farmers in the county have been meeting and giving their input as the county has undertaken a year-long Stanly County Farmland Protection study.

On Monday night, an executive summary was presented to the Stanly County Commissioners. A public hearing will be held at Stanly Commons on Nov.16.

The study addresses many divergent issues ranging from land planning to industrial development and is broken into two separate, but inter-related sections: (1) The Stanly County Agriculture Land Use Plan and (2) The Stanly County Agriculture Economic Development Plan.

Each component of the plan is intended to support agriculture as a continuing and economically productive land use and the study team comes up with 15 recommendations to advance agriculture and all Stanly County communities.

In 2007, approximately 41 percent (104,517 acres) of Stanly County's 252,838 acres were in farm ownership or farm use. Of these, 58,195 acres were cropland (55 percent), 20,558 acres in pastureland and 19,712 acres in woodland while 76 percent of the county’s agriculture economy comes from the poultry industry.

The study details ways to protect these farm lands for the future and to enhance agriculture economic development. The Nov. 16 public hearing is highly recommended for all concerned citizens. With the death of textiles and aluminum in Stanly County, agriculture is the lone remaining viable symbol gracing the Stanly County Seal.

Agriculture’s importance to Stanly County cannot be over-stated.



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