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With more farm machinery at their command and with more intensive use of fertilizers and pesticides, they have been able to produce bumper yields per acre.
Details on the year’s operations, for the local area and for all other sections of the country, are contained in the annual survey released by the Standard Rate and Data Service.
They show that Rappahannock County farmers had gross revenues in the past year of $5,009,000, a gain over their 1964 total of $4,275,000.
That was the gross figure, before taxes and before deductions for operating expenses.
Included in it are the cash receipts from the sale of farm goods, together with the government payments and income in kind, which is the value of products grown and consumed on the farm.
An estimated 48 percent of the cash receipts from farm marketings locally came from the sale of crops. The remaining 52 percent was from sales of livestock, poultry and dairy items.
Despite the fact that housewives are paying more for food, the farmer and rancher have not been able to cash in sufficiently on the increase.
Last year, according to the Department of Agriculture, 41 cents of every dollar spent for food went to them, compared with 39 cents in 1968. The other 59 cents went to shippers, processors and other middlemen.
Nevertheless, there have been gains. The overall result, for American farmers, was a net Income of nearly $16 billion, which was $1 billion more than in 1968.
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