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Rappahannock’s harvested cropland comprised 19.9 per cent of the total acreage devoted to agricultural use, pasture 19.7 per cent, other cropland 2.6 per cent, woodland 34.1 per cent and other farmland 23.8 per cent.
In the district between 1969 and 1978, total cropland increased nearly six per cent. Within this overall cropland category, harvested cropland rose over 20 per cent while pasture cropland declined 2 per cent. Woodland in the district declined by over seven per cent while “other" farmland decreased nearly 21 per cent.
(Other farmland includes cropland used for soil improvement crops, crop failure, cultivated summer follow, idle cropland, woodland pasture and land in house and barn lots, ponds, roads, wasteland, etc.)
Value of farm sales in Rappahannock as they did throughout the district increased significantly between 1974 and 1978. “Although this increase is largely attributable to inflation, an overall comparison shows a steady increase in the number of farms with sales over $100,000 for all district counties except Rappahannock and a decrease in the number of farms with less than $5,000 sales in all five counties,” the regional farmland report notes.
90.9%