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necessary financial backing for the year round recreation venture in Harris Hollow. Moore reported on Tuesday that Ski Round Top is interested in investing in the Rappahannock operation. Ski Round Top runs two successful ski areas in Pennsylvania between York and Harrisburg and near Gettysburg. Moore said that Round Top’s president and managers from the two areas have been spending time in the county over the last six months. He added that representatives from Round Top will attend Wednesday’s Planning Commission meeting. “We don’t have anything positive yet but they're expressing serious interest,’’ Moore concluded.
Agriculture
Still No. 1
Although farmers may constitute only four per cent of the nation’s total population, agriculture is still number one in many areas of the economy, according to Robert K. Reynolds, Virginia Tech Extension specialist in farm management.
For example, agriculture i: the nation’s number om industry boasting assets o $768 billion and employing 14,000,000 to 17,000,000 persons. Agriculture’s rate of productivity is double that of non-farming industry, making farming the county’s top inflation fighter.
In addition, the industry is the nation’s number one exporter with over $27 billion in agricultural products shipped to foreign countries in 1978.
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