About 10 years ago, Tyre Yancey of Bridgewater realized he was in the last generation of farmers to use horse power. When Yancey was a teenager in 1950, there were 280,000 acres of farmland in Rockingham County, according to the U.S. Census taken that year. That’s 2,370 farms. Now Yancey is 71. The 2002 census showed the county had 148,000 acres of farmland, with 1,656 farms. It’s diminished ...
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