'Agriculture: Bigger Than You Think'
This year's National Agriculture Week theme

National Agriculture Week, celebrated each year on or around the first day of spring, March 20, is a time to celebrate American agriculture and to honor the people who work to meet our everyday needs of food and clothing.

Agriculture is Georgia's oldest and largest industry, and it remains a leading source of jobs and income. Georgia has one of the nation's most vital and diversified farm economies, leading the nation in the production of poultry, pecans, peanuts, eggs and forestry products. Georgia consistently ranks as a top producer of watermelons, rye, peaches, sweet potatoes and cotton and is home to the world famous Vidalia onion.

It has become an evergreater challenge to feed a growing population with fewer and fewer farm families.

Here in Miller County, farming is the main source of income for many people. The values and principles that farmers in our county learn from the land have shaped the character of our people and the development of our county.

We ask that you join us this week and every week in thanking the men and women of agriculture who dedicate themselves to providing for all of us the most abundant and most affordable food and fiber supply in the world.

See our special section on National Agriculture Week on pages 10 through 17.