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Article: Pierce County, Wash., Dairy Farmer Feels Squeezed by Prices.
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- January 3, 2003
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By Eijiro Kawada, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 3--Ron Inglin plans to move his dairy farm near South Prairie to Eastern Washington next year because continuing his family business in Pierce County has become too expensive.
It means that Inglin's youngest son, 2-year-old Paul, won't be a fourth-generation Pierce County dairy farmer, and that the county could lose another 340 acres of productive farmland.
Such consequences could have been avoided if Pierce County had farmland preservation programs that King and Thurston counties have adopted, said Monty Mayhan, manager of Pierce Conservation ...