Fayette County Farm Bureau Woman’s Committee Host Farmer’s Share Breakfast

By Tony Angeloni

Editor

      Hungry locals lined up on Friday, March 21st for some breakfast as the Fayette County Farm Bureau Woman’s Committee hosted the Farmer’s Share Breakfast.

      The Farmer’s Share Breakfast only cost $1.00 and that dollar

represents the farmer’s share of the breakfast cost.

Some numbers of Fayette County Agriculture:

  -Farms: 1,122

  -Number of family farms: 93

  -Acres of farmland: 328,888

  -Farm by size: 370 are 50 to 179 acres

  -Average size of farm: 293 acres

  -Top crops in acres: Soybeans (1st) and Corn (2nd)

  -Market Value of Ag Products Sold: $220,398.00

The Fayette County Farm Bureau Woman’s Committee are hard at work providing breakfast for the customers on Friday, March 21.

Customers lined up at the Fayette County Farm Bureau on Friday, March 21 for the Farmer’s Share Breakfast.

  -Total county population: 21,488