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more than $1,000 and you’ve got a farm,” Thornhill said. "There’s no trend yet (showing a comeback for farming). It may be significant but it’s too early to tell. We need to look at statistics on agricultural operations over a ten year period.”
Tom Taylor from the county’s Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) says the number of farms in Rappahannock listed by his office hasn’t changed in the last three or four years. “They’ve stayed pretty much the same,” ha said. "I don’t see us on any upswing.”
While the number of farms increased from 266 to 313 in the four year period covered by the latest census and the total number of acres reported in farming climbed from 78,214 to
73.5%