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Balancing Industrial Growth and Agricultural Roots
Small-town charm and rural Carroll County continues to maintain
opportunities still thrive in Carroll appropriate space to ease growing
County, despite the significant pains, but not without strategy and
population growth of about 36 percent foresight. By encouraging growth
in the last 20 years. County and through incentives in selected
municipal leaders have worked to areas and protecting farmland and
strike a balance between population greenspace, this area can continue
and commercial growth and the to deliver the best of all worlds –
need for community greenspaces opportunity and tradition, stability
and agricultural land, which they and expansion, business and nature –
accomplish in part because of the without losing its authenticity.
county’s large physical area.
Key Agriculture Values
4 Ag & Nature-based Tourism Value:
$4.97 million
4 Turfgrass Value: $6.86 million
4 Beef Cows: $8.76 million
4 Total Livestock: $22.27 million
4 Broiler Chickens: $66.44 million
4 Total Value - $126.55 million
Source: UGA Center for Agribusiness and
Development, Farm Gate Report, 2019
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