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RAPPAHANNOCK County is • continuing to lose farmland and at a higher rate than adjoining counties, according to a farm report released last week by the Rappahannock-Rapidan Planning District Commission. Rappahannock is the only county in the'District to have more than half of its land, 56 percent, employed in “non-farm uses,” and the only county to show a decrease in the total acres of harvested cropland.
In Virginia as a whole, total acres of cropland decreased by ten percent while the decrease in the same category only amounted to seven percent in the Planning District. But Rappahannock’s rate jumped from a nine percent decrease between 1964 and 1969, to 15 percent between 1969 and 1974.
The value of the agricultural products sold in Rappahannock increased along with all of the other counties in the District, but the growth rate of approximately 50 percent was far below the statewide increase of 92 percent, according to the report.
The number of farms in the county decreased moderately over the five-year period between 1969 and 1974 when compared to the state as a whole. In Virginia, the number of farms decreased by 14 percent and in Rappahannock, pnly by four percent.
THE total net income produced by farms, determined by subtracting total farm expenses from total
93.8%