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Farm Group Opposes New Disney Park: Walt Disney Co.’s proposed history theme park would have an adverse impact on rural Virginia from the District of Columbia west to the Shenandoah Valley--jeopardizing 50% of the state’s orchards and 15% of its farmland, a conservation group said this week. The American Farmland Trust, an 18,000-member nonprofit group that gets much of its financial support from the Rockefeller family and the Ford and Richard King Mellon foundations, urged a halt to the project unless conservation measures are taken to protect Northern Virginia’s $263-million agriculture industry. Mary Anne Reynolds, speaking for Disney’s America, rejected any freeze on the project.