On a hot summer morning Larry McGlasson is out picking fresh apples from trees at his family's Lakeview Farm off bustling North Bend Road near Interstate 275 in Hebron.
It doesn't seem like a scene you'd find often in growing Boone County. Yet, McGlasson carries on. He said these days this farming business is "tough. ... It's more expensive to farm. Equipment's more expensive."
Boone County was once a lot more rural than it is today. However, there are still people like the McGlassons farming.
The public will learn more about the county's agricultural industry when a study is released by the Boone County Farm Initiative during an open house at 5 p.m. Sept. 1 at the Boone County Public Library's Main Library, 1786 Burlington Pike, Burlington.
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