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The Agriculture Retention and Development Act was created as part of New Jersey's efforts to counteract the loss of farmland in the state. The legislation formed the basis needed for the state to purchase the easements of New Jersey farms in order to ensure they remain as farms, and could never be sold for housing or for non-farming commercial development.
Massachusetts passed the first right to farm law in 1979. [7] In 1979, Pilesgrove Township, New Jersey enacted the state's first right-to-farm ordinance, protecting farming as a "natural right hereby ordained to exist as a permitted use everywhere in the Township of Pilesgrove." [8] By 2015, every state has a similar law, but the details can ...
Peter Southway of Springhouse Creamery in Wantage, left, makes a point on Aug. 10, 2023 with Rep. Josh Gottheimer, NJ-5, right, as Holly Systema of Windy Flats Farm in Wantage, and a member of the ...
The act was supplemented with the Agriculture Retention and Development Act of 1981 which put permanent deed restrictions on the sale of farm properties. The Farmland Assessment Act continues today allowing tax exemptions for property 5 acres or more in size devoted to farmland or woodland.
The New Jersey Office of Administrative Law (OAL) is the state administrative law agency responsible for publishing the New Jersey Register and the New Jersey Administrative Code pursuant to the New Jersey Administrative Procedure Act. [1]
Signed into law by President Bill Clinton on April 4, 1996 The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-127), known informally as the Freedom to Farm Act , the FAIR Act , or the 1996 U.S. Farm Bill , was the omnibus 1996 farm bill that, among other provisions, revises and simplifies direct payment programs for crops and ...
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The Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade (FACT) Act of 1990 — P.L. 101-624 (November 28, 1990) was a 5-year omnibus farm bill that passed Congress and was signed into law. This bill, also known as the 1990 farm bill, continued to move agriculture in a market-oriented direction by freezing target prices and allowing more planting ...