Housing pressure puts squeeze on Utah's rich farm land

[bluemingidiot]

The unique microclimate and fertile soil in Utah County combine to make it the state's most successful agricultural region, producing $240 million in cash receipts in a farming and ranching economy that brings in $2.4 billion in a year.

The American Farmland Trust estimates that every hour, more than 40 acres of U.S. farm and ranch land is lost.

www.deseretnews.com/article/865654327/Housing-pressure-puts-the-squeeze-on-Utah-Countys-rich-farmland.html?s_cid=Email-1

With another billion people coming on line every ten years or so, where and how will this end?

[jangirl]

bluemingidiot, I was sad to see last time I was there that a lot of orchards are now housing developments. It is happening all over.

[bluemingidiot]

God gave Adam a Garden of Eden and Adam corrupted it. God gave our ancestors the Garden of America and we have corrupted it. As my old friend Daniel use to say, "People just can't stand prosperity."

[comfortablynumb]

Wait... didn't Eve ruin the Garden thing? It wasn't Adam's idea.

[spacecase0]

May 18, 2016 4:41:36 GMT comfortablynumb said:

Wait... didn't Eve ruin the Garden thing? It wasn't Adam's idea.

sadly it was the housing developers that did it, they just blame Eve

[bluemingidiot]

May 18, 2016 4:41:36 GMT comfortablynumb said:

Wait... didn't Eve ruin the Garden thing? It wasn't Adam's idea.

Even though you may not be the brains of the outfit, if you participate in the crime you are equally guilty.

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Same thing's been going on down here for quite some time...seems like developers of over-priced, cookie-cutter neighborhoods simply cannot abide leaving a square inch of land for anything to grow on other than the few feet they leave for each house's "yard".

Apparently, that's what people want nowadays...to stay cooped up in their little cocoons, only to venture out long enough to cut their postage stamp lawns (maybe 20 - 30 minutes?).