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Yet, these same farmers have “a fear of the unknown,” said C. Ted Carroll, Orange County's farm agent. “I think if we looked at the markets to see what the opportunities are, they’d have a whole differ* ent attitude. If we came back and said, ‘Giant or Safeway would buy this, would you be interested in growing it?', there’d be a different response,” he said.
Farmers in Loudoun County, where 85 percent of the farm owners have other jobs, are interested in “things to do with the land,” said agent William Harrison. Many graze cattle so they can receive the land use benefit without devoting much labor.
Also, many farmers in the northern Piedmont region are in their mid 50s and geared to producing livestock. It may be difficult for them to change from an animal to a plant industry, but it can work if farmers are interested, said Charles W. Coale Jr., a Virginia Tech Extension economist in agricultural marketing.
Mr. Coale discussed a five-year venture in Southside Virginia that
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