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farmer tells me that times are changing for agriculture in our county.”
(Mr. Foster’s quote, contained in an interview in the Jan. 5, 1989 issue of the Rappahannock News, was: “You’ve got to have volume to buy big equipment that can offset your manpower problems . . . 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.” The buyer of Mr. Foster’s 302-acre farm. Alfred Kummli of The Plains, plans to keep the Foster property in agriculture, according to Mr. Foster. He has about 900 acres in Rappahannock County, and will move his cattle operation here. In the interview Mr. Foster said he had offers from developers, “but I didn’t want to see the land grow up in houses.”)
Col. Bingham called the breakup of large farms into smaller operations which supplement the owners’ primary income, “a form of natural development, development that is healthy for the County as indicated by the 40 percent increase in farm products sold.
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