Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Family farms growing extinct


Ticonderoga County’s family farms have been on the decline for the last 40 years, and agricultural officials say there is no comeback in sight. Jeff Mackey, a professor of sociology at Ticonderoga College, stated that family farms are becoming “as rare as the dinosaur.” Numbers are down since 1985 when there were more than 800 working farms in the county.

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