1.   Farmers say Califia would destroy prime farmland and sap the Central Valley of desperately needed water.

2.   Oregon originally adopted growth boundaries to keep subdivisions from overrunning prime farmland.

3.   Rains sweeten prime farmland.

4.   States should take land inventories and analyze growth trends to find and save endangered prime farmland, the report said.

5.   The country is not running out of prime farmland.

6.   Missouri ranks poorly when it comes to protecting prime farmland from urban sprawl, says Megan Fowler, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco-based Sierra Club.

7.   They also say that prime farmland will be bought up by rich Russians and taken out of agricultural use.