For shame! Since when is conservation a sentimental activity? Language
frames issues and sentimentality is certainly not an appropriate frame if
the land is to be sustained. This is not the plot of a Victorian novel but
more evidence that women land owners need to be helped rather than
pigeonholed as 'sentimental.'
<snip>"While most women still own farmland for income purposes, "almost 30
percent of single female owners say they own it primarily for family or
sentimental reasons, not income," says Michael Duffy, an economist at Iowa
State University who does a regular survey of land ownership. (More farm
wives are inheriting farmland as their husbands pass on.)
Those "sentimental reasons" often translate into conservation concerns -
with animal habitat, environment, and water quality high on the list. Women
land owners care more about land preservation than about maximizing crop
yield - with potentially large implications for farming practices, the
findings show." </snip>
End of tirade,
Linda Scarth
Cedar Rapids
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