Farmton Agriculture
Farmton’s roots and heart are in agriculture.
In 1925, Miami Corporation officers visited the site around Farmton and Maytown in Volusia and Brevard Counties in search of agricultural land. The initial purchase of forty-five thousand acres has grown over the past century to be a seventy-thousand-acre property known as the Farmton Tract, or Farmton Tree Farm.
Growing and cultivating trees began in the early 1950s. From 1954 to 1967, fourteen million seedlings were planted, and cutting began in 1974. Since that time, forestry operations have continued using best management practices for planting and harvesting of southern yellow pine.
