A NEW HIGHER CALLING IN AGRICULTURAL LAW

摘要

Farming is a high calling. Lawyering on behalf of farmers and agriculture is characterized by many to be a similarly noble enterprise. At least two assumptions have been the basis for the belief that agricultural law holds a special place in legal practice. First, in ways that are hard to describe and that seem to have deep origins in human culture, the production of food and fiber is special. The mysteries of nature that surround farming and the provision of our most basic necessities, and even thevery act of agriculture itself, all seem somehow unique and important to human beings. In a more contemporary context, one could add the cultural values associated with rural life, a heritage in the United States of significant political and social contribution by farmers, and other aspects of this specialness.