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With the growing affluence of I the population as a whole, there | was a greater demand for j agricultural products, both here I and abroad. It created a rise in the price of many commodities, but the farmer and rancher got only a small part of the benefit. The report lists Rappahannock County’s gross farm income in the past year as $4,678,000, as compared with the total five years ago of $4,107,000. These were the gross figures, before any allowances for taxes and operating costs. The rise, which amounted to 14 percent, was greater than was chalked up in many farm areas.
Of the local income, approximately 48 percent came from the sale of crops and 52 percent from the marketing of livestock, poultry and dairy products. These figures are based upon the latest Department of Agriculture statistics.
The income figure also takes Into account money received from the government and “Income in kind,” which is the value of home-grown products consumed on the farm.
Offsetting the rise in gross income in the last five years was the sharp increase in taxes, wages, fuel, feed and other production
72.5%