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Speaker 1: Here inside Route one twenty eight. We sometimes forget there's

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Speaker 1: a fertile, unpaved part of Massachusetts where a lot of

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Speaker 1: good stuff has grown well. Massachusetts Agriculture Day is a

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Speaker 1: helpful reminder.

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Speaker 2: So mass Egg Day is an opportunity for farmers to

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Speaker 2: have direct contact with their legislators.

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Speaker 1: Karen Schwalby, executive director of the mass Farm Bureau Federation,

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Speaker 1: says that kind of contact is important.

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Speaker 2: So we want our legislators to understand the issues farmers' face,

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Speaker 2: whether or not it is cost of production, land prices, labor.

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Speaker 1: And so farmers have come from across the state here

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Speaker 1: set up tables and are offering up a lot of

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Speaker 1: good free stuff to eat from the State House. Carl

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Speaker 1: Stevens WBC Boston's News radio