[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 46 (Monday, November 19, 2001)]
[Pages 1664-1665]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7501--National Farm-City Week, 2001

November 13, 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

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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

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 9:35 a.m., November 14, 
2001]

 Note:  This proclamation was published in the  Federal Register  on 
November 15.