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Some 159 community leaders from the 14-county northern Piedmont area heard at Fauquier Springs last Wednesday that while total farm land In the area will be down from 2.1 million acres in 1959 to 1.7 million acres In 1975, cash receipts from farming including timber, can increase from 170 millions to 1102 millions in the same span.
Three specialists from Virginia Polytechnic institute, in a meeting sponsored by the Governor’s Commission on the Industry of Agriculture, told the community representatives of the large stake the Piedmont area has in agriculture.
A member of the Governor’s Commission, Hubert B. Phipps of Marshall, welcomed farm ind u s t r y representatives and their guests, and introduced W. H. Daughtrey, director of VPI’s Extension Service. Said Mr. Phipps, "There are no more devoted public servants in Virginia than those connected with agriculture.”
Economy Interdependent
"We can’t separate," Director Daughtrey said, "farming from the rest of the economy, nor rural people from the rest of the country. We are interdependent."'
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