Editor, The Smithfield Times:

So we got some good news. Inflation is slowly going down. Food prices are also supposedly coming down. 

It will never stop the naysayers and doomsdayers, but I’ll take good news where I can get it. I can’t quite feel the grocery price thing but wait with eager anticipation. 

That being said, as I see farmland rapidly going by the wayside in favor of development, I fear how much more expensive things will be when we have to import everything because all the land is gone. I know I can’t tell landowners what to do with their land, but I do respectfully request that they think of the value of farming. 

Is it easy? No. Will it make you rich? No. But in farming you provide a service to the community and a profession to a farmer. If someone is in a crisis situation and needs to sell, OK. But if you don’t want to keep it because you have no investment in it, sell to whoever farms it instead of a developer — at a loss if need be to ensure the future of farming.  

Keeping farms will benefit everyone for years to come.  Please think about this and make the right decision when the time comes.

 

Reid S Lundie 

Carrollton