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are significantly cleaner than what leaves the jurisdictions downstream. “To make it mandatory is taking a sledge hammer to a gnat. We’re not affecting the bay adversely at all. We’re helping the counties below us.”
John Genho, manager at Eldon Farms - with roughly 1,000 head of cattle grazing 3,500 open acres, probably the county’s largest single concentration of livestock - said fencing every stream on the farm would more than double the cost of fence construction and maintenance.
“I think we’d have no more cattle at that point,” Genho said. “Cattle in Rappahannock are marginally profitable, if they’re profitable at all, and a lot of times they’re not. If our fence building and maintenance costs doubled, I don’t think we could justify it.”
Eldon Farms already has 75 acres of fence, said Genho, who also sits on the board of the Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District (CSWCD) - which administers many of the cost-sharing programs available to farmers who are willing (and financially able) to
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