For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 13, 2001
National Farm-City Week Proclamation
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
As fall harvesting occurs and Americans gather with family and
friends during Thanksgiving to share holiday meals, we celebrate our
Nation's farmers and ranchers who provide us with abundant agricultural
products, and we recognize all of those who help get those food
products from the farm to our tables.
The American agricultural industry is the leading global provider
of food. Its remarkable rates of production are a continuing
tribute to the ingenuity, diligence, and creativity of our country's
farmers and ranchers. But agriculture is not just one industry among
many -- it is the very heart of our economy. The aggregate
output of our food industry is unparalleled in human
history. This enormous production makes farmers and ranchers
key contributors to the collective wealth of our
country. Their extraordinary efforts produce foodstuffs not
just for our land but for the world, and they are driven by the
American virtues of independence, industry, innovation, and sacrifice.
Our Nation's farmers and ranchers depend upon a complex chain of
interrelationships with urban workers to get their products to national
and world markets. Shippers, processors, marketers,
tradespeople, grocers, truck drivers, food service providers,
inspectors, researchers, and scientists are all part of the formula
that feeds our land and the world. These urban/agriculture
partnerships serve as catalysts for our overall commercial success; and
their continued development is essential to sustaining our prosperity.
As we reflect upon the important role these partnerships play in
the strength and success of our great Nation, we remember those who
devote their lives to meeting an essential national and worldwide
need. We are blessed by our agricultural abundance, by the
committed and caring farmers and ranchers who strive to provide all we
need to feed our people and the people of the world, and by all of
those who help accomplish this important undertaking.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States
of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution
and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 16 through
November 22, 2001, as National Farm-City Week. I call upon
all Americans, in rural and urban communities alike, to join in
recognizing the accomplishments of our farms and ranches, and the
hard-working individuals who produce an abundance of affordable,
quality agricultural goods that strengthen and enrich our country.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
this thirteenth day of
November, in the year of our Lord two thousand one, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and
twenty-sixth.
GEORGE W. BUSH
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