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CONGRATULATIONS to Fred Duncan, the Fauquier County corn grower who won a state championship for the yield he managed out of rolling fields near Broad Run, on the slopes of the Bull Run Mountains. And we are indebted to him doubly for demonstrating once again how valuable this country is for agricultural purposes, and of how foolish, even disastrous, it would be if this excellent agricultural land were converted to other uses—say, subdivisions or shopping centers.
Almost every time the viability of this area’s agricultural community is mentioned, there seems to be a scoffer in the audience. He’ll tell anyone who’ll listen to him that this land is “no good” for farming, and never has been. Let them build houses and “new towns” on it, he’ll say; that’s all its good for.
Try telling that to Fred Duncan. Or to the area’s famous cattlemen. Or to the successful sheep farmers and hog farmers who still flourish. Or to the thriving dairymen and orchard
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