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in Rappahannock. It would save me a lot of gas money.”
Ms. Saltonstall of Points-of-View Farm in Wakefield District told the court she now leases some of her pasture land out to other farmers and also raises horse hay as a cash crop.
“I started farming (in Rappahannock County) in 1971 and got serious about in in 1979,” she said.
All of her farm. 566.5 acres, was put in the Mulky Mountain Agricultural and Forestal District in 1982, but she pulled about 153 acres out when the district was renewed for 10 years in 1990, she said.
Asked why she had put her farm in the Ag District, Ms. Saltonstall said, “I knew I wanted to farm and I didn’t want Rappahannock County coming in on me with regulations.”
“I think the ban on sludge has made a mockery of the state statutes (on Agricultural Districts)."
She explained she tried raising a registered beef herd but sold it off in 1985, “because I could not stand the cost of the fertilizer.”
“I think the chemicals in commercial fertilizer are the risk, not organic fertilizers,” she added.
(Editors note: The trial should he over shortly after this edition of the Rappahannock News is printed. Next week's story will cover the testimony of the technical experts for both sides and the judge s decision J
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