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Organization seeks to stop redevelopment of farmland
more people to feed, he said.
The industry also faces rising
sea levels and more intense
rain, floods and droughts, he
said.
By the end of the century,
roughly 15 percent of the
best farmland, or 52.5 mil-
lion acres, could be lost, Lar-
son said.
Some regions produce lit-
tle of the food they consume,
he said. For example, to get
to 50 percent security in food
production, in New England
would need an additional 1
million acres of farmland.
“Stemming loss is one
thing,” Larson. “Redevelop-
ing farmland is a whole other
challenge.”
In the meantime, stop-
ping the redevelopment of
farmland will require more
resources, he said. For
every penny states invest to
save farmland, they spend
about $10 on highways,
By MATTHEW WEAVER
EO Media Group
WALLA WALLA, Wash.
— The U.S. loses more than 3
acres of farm and ranch land
to development each minute,
the leader of a national non-
profit organization dedicated
to protecting ag land told a
food security conference.
More than 31 million
acres — of 350 million total
acres of farmland — were
converted to other develop-
ment between 1992 to 2012,
including 11 million acres of
the best farmland, said John
Larson, senior vice presi-
dent of national programs for
American Farmland Trust.
He spoke during a food secu-
rity forum Oct. 26 in Walla
Walla, Wash.
“Once it’s lost, it’s lost,”
he said.
By 2040, Larson said, the
U.S. will have 66 million
Matthew Weaver/EO Media Group
John Larson, senior vice president of national pro-
grams for the American Farmland Trust, addresses a
food security forum on Oct. 26 in Walla Walla, Wash.
Larson said.
The nonprofit organiza-
tion works to protect farm-
land through tax relief and
other incentives, limiting
development of farmland and
permanently protecting farm-
land from development.
The AFT recommends:
• Dramatically increas-
ing funding to protect ag land
through agricultural conser-
vation easements and agri-
cultural land easements.
• Fully funding USDA
efforts to monitor changes to
U.S. ag resources, in a proac-
tive approach.
• Enacting a 21st century
federal ag land protection
strategy.
In early 2019, the organi-
zation will release state-spe-
cific reports, ranking each
state’s efforts to protect farm-
land. Later in the year, it will
develop projections for 2040,
using county-level data to
determine the greatest threats.
“If we’re disproportion-
ately developing where our
best is, we’re doing our-
selves and future genera-
tions very much a disser-
vice,” Larson said.
State and local programs
and farm-friendly land trusts
have protected 6.5 million
acres across the country, Lar-
son said.
Hannah Clark, Pacific
Northwest regional director
for AFT, said funding is com-
petitive. The more the indus-
try connects farmland pro-
tection options and data with
users throughout the supply
chain, the better to develop
strategies, she said, citing the
example of a market decid-
ing to protect ground for its
organic carrot production
through a land trust.
“How do we be more
smart about what land we’re
protecting?” she said. “I hope
we can protect those key-
stone properties around the
state we just can’t lose, but
then the rest of it, we can fig-
ure out, how do we really
make this thing work?”
BRIEFLY
the seven appeared separately Monday to
enter pleas in federal court to charges alleg-
ing they created disturbances and failed
to comply with federal officers’ orders to
leave the agency’s building.
Protesters had camped outside the office
beginning June 17, leading to the building’s
temporary closure. Authorities detained a
number of people later that month while
trying to reopen.
The activists sought the abolishment of
Seven plead not guilty to
charges stemming from ICE
protests
PORTLAND (AP) — Seven people
have pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor
charges stemming from the weekslong
demonstrations outside the U.S. Immigra-
tion and Customs Enforcement building in
Portland.
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PORTLAND (AP) — Authorities have
arrested the husband of a woman whose
body was found near a summer camp
southeast of Portland.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports
the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office
arrested 45-year-old Martin Gallo-Gallardo
Monday.
The sheriff’s office says he’s facing a
murder charge in the death of 38-year-old
Coral Rodrigues-Lorenzo.
Her body was found Sunday by a worker
at Camp Namanu near the Sandy River.
Clackamas County deputies say they
believe she had been left in a ditch there on
Saturday or Sunday.
The sheriff’s office says Gallo-Gallardo
confessed to killing Rodrigues-Lorenzo
during a Monday interview with detectives.
He was booked in the Clackamas County
Jail and is being held without bail.
It wasn’t immediately known if he had
an attorney to speak for him.
PORTLAND (AP) — Court records say
a Portland man who was killed last week
was stabbed in the chest with a sword that
was hidden in a cane.
A probable cause affidavit says Timothy
Cato pulled out the sword while 28-year-
old Tyler Chism was
arguing with his girl-
friend around 2 a.m.
Thursday in Northwest
Portland.
The affidavit says
Cato and an unidenti-
fied woman approached
Chism and his girlfriend,
and Cato pulled out
the sword and stabbed Cato
Chism in the chest.
The affidavit says Cato then sheathed
the sword and used the cane for assistance
as he walked away, leaving the wounded
man on the ground.
After his arrest, documents say 59-year-
old Cato told court staff that he didn’t know
Chism. Cato pleaded not guilty Monday
to murder and unlawful use of a weapon
charges.
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ICE and the end of the Trump administra-
tion’s zero-tolerance immigration policy.
Prosecutors claim the seven protest-
ers “unreasonably obstructed” the build-
ing, “impeded and disrupted” government
employees’ official duties and refused
orders to leave.
A trial has been scheduled for March.
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