National Farm-City Week, 2001

Proclamation 7501 of November 13, 2001

National Farm-City Week, 2001

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.

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