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As you are well aware this State not only produces 2/3rds of the
worlds food and fiber, but it also consumes much of what it
produces.  Regulations and Governments that do not balance the
weight of "big government" vs. "private enterprise" soon will send
a weight shift of global proportions that will change our way of
life forever if they are not careful.  As a small family farmer
trying to develop a 60 acre lemon grove I can assure you that the
burden and weight of the government upon us is so massive that we
just do not see any safe standard for maintaining a sustainable
small family farm based upon the regulatory weight.  The lawmakers
just do not grasp that it is not a "one size fit's all" State.  The
diversity in this State's agricultural communities is the single
thread that set's us apart from the rest of the world, and the
balancing act for the natural resources that will keep this State a
leader in the world economy depends on this proper balance, between
corporate Ag. and Government Programs designed to manage a
non-corporate social conscious mentality.  Its obvious what the
issue has become as the corporate farmers run to Washington seeking
to manipulate lawmakers to keep water flowing for the corporate
community in the Central San Joaquin Valley.  

The cost of running these larger corporate size "field factories"
and the regulations that follow them like tic's on a dog, feed a
frenzy and closed loop system that often forgets the basic
principles on what the Nation was founded. The individual effort
formed this Nation's greatness, and individual effort will prevent
us from ruin, unless Big Brother interferes with the natural ebb
and flow of that basic truth.

Thank You


Keith A. Freitas