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By DAPHNK HUTCHINSON
Rapitahannock N**h» Staff V ritrr
Planners, real estate agents with a sharp eye on land use trends, agricultural experts and members of local government have been broadcasting the message for years that farming is a dying industry in Piedmont Virginia. But the diagnosis may be premature, at least in the counties furthest from the metropolitan fringe.
While corn field are being paved over for shopping centers and cut into small-lot subdivisions in Prince William, Fauquier and Loudoun, a group of longtime farmers from Rappahannock, Clarke and Warren have pooled their
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