The Salt Shaker Press' Arbovale correspondent reports that the $10,000,000 sale of the "Deer Farm" may have fallen through due to farming restrictions on the property. The irony is that an Amish Group wanted to buy the 1600 acre farm but backed out when they discovered that the farm could not be subdivided.
He reports that the Amish tend to restrict their farms according to the physical limits imposed by farming with horses to about 40 acres per farm. This group may have involved multiple farmers.
Pocahontas County has a farmland protection program which restricts subdividing. This restriction is difficult if the farmer has more than one child. Likewise, it inhibits large scale property development.
The irony is that this program may have backfired in that it might have discouraged Amish farmers from buying a farm to continue farming.
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