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To: central_va
As incredible as it may sound (I grew up in the tidewater, where 10 acres of tobacco was considered a farm), these are family farms, here.

The only reason some of these family farms are incorporated is to keep the government from siezing a huge chunk of the farm for death taxes.

The equipment required to farm wheat on this scale costs over a million dollars by itself. Profit margins per acre are small so it takes a lot of acres.

60 posted on 05/15/2011 7:43:20 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
I was raised an worked in tob. most my life a lot of 35-100 acre family farms around here
we farmed hillsides had use horse's spent many a day cul. plowing with a horse
168 posted on 05/15/2011 9:13:55 AM PDT by jessky
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