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By MARK SCOLFORO
Rappahannock N«w» SUIT Writer
Members of the Rappahannock Fanners’ Association filled the Rappahannock Elementary School gym Friday night for the group’s second annual meeting.
Besides the delicious meal of county-raised roast beef, RFA members also heard a talk by Ralph Grossi, national director of the American Farmland Trust, the group selected by the RFA to conduct a pending survey of county farms and farmers.
Mr. Grossi said that his organization hopes to use the information from the Rappahannock survey to perform similar services to other counties in Virginia. The first part of the survey will be conducted in the coming weeks by telephone. The second part will follow later in the year.
The evening began with remarks by RFA president James F. Massie Jr., who outlined the many activities undertaken by the 180-member group during its second year of operations: the Livestock Club, the Farm Show, the hay donations for Clarke County farmers, land-use advocacy, and a lecture at the county library last month.
He stressed that a major goal of the RFA has and will continue to be supporting the county’s land-use taxation policy. “It’s vitally impor
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