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• Comments deemed to be spam or solely promotional in nature will be deleted. Including a link to relevant content is permitted, but comments should be relevant to the post topic.
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• anything that violates our Privacy Policies
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• any other comments that are detrimental to the community.

The publisher reserves the right to edit or delete any comments submitted to the website without notice. This comment policy is subject to change at any time. If you have any questions about the commenting policy, please let us know at ruraldevelopment@dlg.org.