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lems. . .There’s no future for farming here, ’lessin’ you’re into farming big. These little farms we have in Rappahannock — there’s no way they can keep going.”
Mr. Foster thinks the buyer of his 302 acres will be big enough to survive. With the Dahlgren farm which he purchased previously, Mr. Kummli’s Rappahannock holdings total about 900 acres. “He wants to run 100 head on my old place,” Mr. Foster said.
The new owner has a 400-acre farm near The Plains in Fauquier County, Mr. Foster said. “He told my son he was going to sell his farm there and concentrate everything here. . .1 could have sold to two or three developers, but I didn’t want to see the land grow up in houses.”
Mr. Kummli, who is himself a developer in Prince William County, “promised me to keep it in farming and he gave me what I wanted. . .finally,” said Mr. Foster, reporting the purchase price for the 302-acre farm as $1 million. “Now as long as he keeps it in farming, I don’t care what he does.”
Editor's note: This story is the first of an occasional series on agriculture in Rappahannock County. The second part, an interview with Extension Agent Tommy Williams on the future of farming in the county, will appear next week.
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