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Center for Appropriate Technology, through a grant from the Rural Business-Cooperative Service,
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S.
Department of Agriculture.
These organizations do not recommend or endorse products,
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Diversification into … such opportunities as agricultural or educational tours, u-pick operations, farm stores,
pumpkin patches, agricultural festivals, and farm stands is not a substitute for a pro family farm agenda.
…
[However,] one of my fears is that if farmers and ranchers are too tardy in their response to this emerging
opportunity, theme park operators will develop simulated farms and operate them as agri-tourism attractions.
—Desmond Jolly, Director
Small Farm Program
University o
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