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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Through the Agriculture Retention and Development Act of 1981, the State of New Jersey to purchase the easements along the farms thus preventing the construction and rezoning of these areas into industrial, commercial, residential, and/or otherwise areas. Per the State, as of 2022, the act has helped save some 2,800 farms amassing 247,517 acres ...
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 eliminates milk price supports through direct government purchases.
Two drafts of a renewed federal farm bill have been released, and this is what it could mean for the Eastern Shore. ... Preserves the $20 billion investment from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act ...
The government of New Jersey's southernmost county has joined with environmental and fishing industry groups in suing the federal government in a bid to overturn its approval of the state's first ...
The agricultural policy of the United States is composed primarily of the periodically renewed federal U.S. farm bills.The Farm Bills have a rich history which initially sought to provide income and price support to US farmers and prevent them from adverse global as well as local supply and demand shocks.