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30 <br />w <br />e <br />O <br />C <br />m <br />v <br />m <br />a <br />Figure 1 <br />FARMS BY SIZE <br />Orange and Forsyth Counties - 1987 <br />1 -49 50 -99 100 -179 180 -259 260 -499 5vvt <br />Farm size in acres <br />M Orange County ® Forsyth County - <br />Even with an average farm size of 75 acres and a substantial <br />proportion of farms less than 100 acres in size, Forsyth County <br />adopted a strategy of awarding the greatest number of points to <br />farm units with 100 acres or more. The rationale for this strategy <br />was to encourage sizable tracts of land to be offered for <br />development rights acquisition. <br />Size of La-rm Pointa <br />100 acres or more 10.0 <br />75 -99 acres 7.5 <br />50 -74 acres 5.0 <br />25- 44:-acres 2.5 <br />Less `tii#an 25 acres 0.0 <br />As indicated above, a similar strategy is proposed for Orange <br />County. A farm unit at or above 100 acres in size has been assigned <br />a value of 10 points, with values decreasing as the size of the <br />farm unit decreases. Another reason for awarding points on this <br />basis is that approximately half of all farms are larger or smaller <br />than 100 acres in size, a feature which may be indicative of the <br />most feasible farm size. <br />