Source: Jordan Howse, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 11/7/16


In an effort to grow the family farm economy in Forsyth County, commissioners adopted a plan to conserve the county’s rural character.More than half of Forsyth County’s 264,000 acres in 1950 were used for farming. By 2012, only about 40,467 acres of the county were used, according to agricultural census data.

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