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From Page 1 poses for which land is held. Farming generally requires large blocks, while a recreation or second home site may be just a fraction of an acre. However, there are many small farms and many large holdings used for no obvious reason other than ownership.
MOST OF the large landholders are residents. However a few large landholders are non-residents. Of the 39 owners who own more than 500 acres, at least 32 are residents.
Most of the owners (43%) placed themselves in the “professional, technical, and managerial’’ capacity. These owners hold 64 per cent of the land. The occupation next in importance is “retired,” who are 25% of the owners and hold 15% of the land. Farmers are only 5% of the owners and hold only 14% of the land. Of course, there are many farmers with occupations other than farming and owners with professional or managerial occupations who also farm tend to have large holdings.
In the census of agriculture, anyone who operates a farm was classified a farm operator by definition. In the ownership survey, a person was called a farmer only if he so classified himself. In Rappahannock County, as in much of the rest of rural America, the distinction between farmer and other occupations is becoming less clear. That is substantial ownership of rural land, much of it farmland, by persons and organizations that are not farmers.
APPARENTLY, Rappahannock is a more popular place to live than in which to work. Among resident owners in the county, 36 per cent are employed outside the county, 28 per cent are employed inside the county and the remainder are not employed.
Rappahannock has no large industrial or commercial enterprises, so it is not surprising to learn that most employment is outside
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