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resources to buy the Front Roval Livestock Market, betting $300,000 that farming has a future here. They aren’t city folks' who lack experience in raising stock and feed crops. They aren’t lawyers, doctors, airline pilots or other professionals looking for a tax write-off. The men who are involved in the livestock market deal are experienced farmers who earn their living in the trade. They’re hardnosed businessmen whose speciality is agriculture.
Mike Massie, vicepresident and manager of the market, runs Hampton Stock Farm in Rappahannock in oartnershio with his father.
P.T. Mclntire of Clarke County farms with his three sons. He’s sales manager for the Northern Virginia Feeder Calf Association, past president of the Virginia Beef Cattle Association and on the board of the National Beef Cattle Association.
Carlton Emmart, also of Clarke, runs a cattle feeder and farming operation.
Louise Mathews is the wife of a farmer and assists her husband Jerry, who alsc works at'Southern States Cooperative in Front Royal
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