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doesn’t reflect numbers of people moving in.”
Peter White talked about the work of the Agricultural Advisory Committee which he heads. The committee was established to make recommendations to the Planning Commission on how the county can help agriculture in the county, he said.
The planners were concerned with the “loss of farmland that is so apparent in the suburbs. Where farmland was, now sprout houses, shopping malls and highways. They bring crime, drugs, congestion and air pollution.”
Mr. White said Rappahannock" “has not been overwhelmed as neighboring counties have, but it is on the threshold.”
His committee is planning an extensive report on agriculture in the county. It will include a survey of farmers including information on income from crops and recommendations for those new crops which seem most promising.
The committee also hopes to find a “truer” basis for computing the value of agriculture to the county, Mr. White said. The revenues from agriculture to the county amount to $6 million per year, but agriculture contributes indirectly to revenues counted elsewhere, he said.
Money counted as derived from real estate should be partly attributed to farming, he said, because many people move here because it is a farming community. Also money attributed to tourism should be partly credited to agriculture, since it is the drive through the country that attracts the tourists.
Mr. White said that when the committee contacted farmers their main concern was that land use taxation be continued. As a result a Rappahannock Farmers Association was being formed. This .organization would be primarily educational, he
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