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11. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Could Virginia’s orchards supply enough apples to put doctors out of business?
> 12. Rockingham County is known as the turkey capital of the world. Could the industry supply all Virginian’s with all the turkey they want to eat?
13. If all the soybeans produced in one year on Virginia farms were put in farm trucks and lined up, how far would they stretch?
14. One of the little known industries in Virginia is the nursery industry. Where else are you going to find the shrubs and sod you need? If all the sod for sale in Virginia was used to cover Highway 1, how far would it go?
15. If all the eggs produced in Virginia were laid end to end, how far would they go?
16. How much of Virginia’s land is in farmland?
17. What was the average farm total net income per farm in 1982?
18. If all of Virginia’s commercial tomato crop was divided equally among all the citizens of the state, how many tomatoes would you have?
19. Virginia ranks fifth in peanut production and also has the number one county in the country in production. Can you name the county?
20. This one will fool you. What is the total value of Virginia’s farm assets?
1. (It’s 88 percent. There has been a lot of talk about farms leaving the family, but in Virginia with 51,893 farms according to the 1982 census they list 45,733 as individual or family owned.)
2. (Most times when we say farmer we think of men, and yet there are 4,035 women farm operators making up 7 percent of the total.)
3. (It’s difficult today for a farmer to make all of his income on the farm and some 54 percent have incomes other than farming. They total 27,771.)
4. (Virginia’s cropland is listed at 2,784,665 acres and only 64,005 acres is in tobacco or 2 percent.)
6. (No. According to the 1982 census the average farm is 182 acres down from 189 in 1978.)
6. (Suffolk has 376, Chesapeake - 282 and Virginia Beach - 230.)
7. (Everybody ought to know the answer to that one. Rockingham, of course. It ranks among the top 100 counties in the U.S. ranking 61st.)
8. (If you said Rockingham, that is a good guess, but not the right one. Washington County has 2,869,
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