West Davis Corridor debate takes a trip to the farm

This topic is a sensitive one for me. My family has been farming for over a century, after my own research of the struggles the modern farmer faces I have come to realize that the farming community is hyper-susceptive to any plight that they may encounter. And while some may believe that losing a few acres of land will not affect someone with a few hundred acres, I am here to tell you that a few acres to most farmers can mean the life of a farm or its death. I know it sounds dramatic but it is the truth. Think of it this way most farmers pay the bills at the end of the year after bringing in the harvest; they get paid x amount of dollars for each ton produced, now if they produce a few ton per acre and lose ten acres of ground you can see the impact. Please understand that for every construction project (yes that includes houses that remain unlived in) that takes pristine farm land is less food to feed the US than we already don’t have, which increases food cost as well as anything else that depends on food commerce. We need to start being careful and protecting what little farming communities are left, before we dig our own graves.