and smaller as each child received a share. The average
farm size in the west today is about 100 acres. After the
wall came down, many folks from West
Germany moved to the
east to buy cheap land and
establish their own farms.
As a fifth generation
farmer whose family owns
and farms land in Randolph
County that has been passed
down since the Civil War,
it was very humbling to me
to hear the stories of people
picking a farm up from
the ruins and trying to start
something new. I will forever
remember a comment made
in a meeting
we had with two staff of a local farm association in East