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wnw pasture. pus t am netting roughly $W per acre^ which is a tut mow that t am making on beef cattle nowc* he said. Soaring costs of ttartihaer ami other farm inputs make hiet cattle business a “fearety break-even* enter* prise^ WcNear said
If the vo»t«yiKW» on farmer* ‘keeps up tor another two ur three years*1* hleNear predicts* ■*vou are going to see hig cKanges here-a tut uf farui' ers are going tu mat* ami I might be one ut them.-*
Raising beef cattle is by far the moat important agricultural enterprise in the county The latest Cun' sus of Agriculture. cum' pleted in 2WX4* found 234 farms in Rappahannock County raising cattle, with more than IT.SW head
Kenner Cove, agrtcul' turat extension agent tor Rappahannock County, said “A tot ol‘ farmer* in the county have worked on excluding cows from the streams before this program came along"* White the voluntary proprams aided fey government cost' sharing seem to have worked well. there has been long standing opposit' tion to any mandatory pro
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