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Article: It's Planting Season - For Profit or Pleasure Making Hay As Corn Slips
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 28, 1988
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Despite a reluctant spring, Loudoun County farmers are preparing
for one of their biggest jobs of the new growing season: planting
corn, soybeans and other crops.
Like most years, drivers along the county's back roads can still
look past flowering dogwoods and redbuds to see farmers on tractors
drawing furrows down distant fields. Farming is still the number one
industry in the county, just as it is in the state. It generates $2
billion annually in farm income in Virginia.
But Loudoun, until several years ago the top corn-producing
county in Virginia, will not see much corn planted this year.
"We lost that status a couple of years ago and it's hard to tell
how far down we'll be this ...