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By Ruth Purnell
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Rappahannock County is a place of rolling hills and open fields where animals graze and farmers work the land. In the early morning you can hear the long lowing of cattle and in the evening the whoop of the farmers as they round up their animals. But what will become of this way of life? In an ever faster paced growing world, the ways of the individual farmer are being lost as we shift to large agribusiness where animals are raised and slaughtered en mass and produce is genetically engineered to grow large, sacrificing flavor.
Today in America farmers over the age of 55 control more than half of U.S. Farmland. What concerns local farmers such as Cliff Miller and Joyce Abell of Rappahannock County is what will happen to the farm land they have worked so hard to preserve.
Miller is the owner of 800 acre Mt Vernon Farm in Sperryville, Va., which has been in his family since 1827. Wanting to keep his farm in the family, Miller is concerned
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