As with the state’s overall economic recovery, this past fiscal year has shown brighter signs for efforts to protect farmland from development in New York. In Fiscal Year 2011-2012, the state worked with farmers, communities and private land trusts to close on 19 farmland protection projects, paying out more than $13 million, with an additional $2 [...]
Deep Roots Holstein Farm, a dairy farm in Washington County, New York, is on deck this year to receive funding from New York State’s Farmland Protection Program in exchange for the development rights to 340 acres of their farmland. Farmers Albert and Donna Marns have three young sons and plans to expand. “We have immediate plans for [...]
American Farmland Trust conducted a survey of New York towns that have developed “agriculture and farmland protection plans.” These plans, developed with funding from the state’s Farmland Protection Program, analyze the importance of agriculture and farmland to municipalities and recommend ways towns can sustain agriculture. The survey found half the towns with plans in place have [...]
Like the state’s overall economic recovery, this past fiscal year has shown brighter signs for efforts to protect farmland from development in New York. In Fiscal Year 2011-2012 the state’s Department of Agriculture and Markets, working with farmers, communities and private land trusts, was able to close on 19 farmland protection projects, paying out more [...]
Central New York is abuzz with talk about regional agricultural economic development. American Farmland Trust recently embarked on a tour of the region led by Maryland-based Agricultural & Community Development Services’ Phillip Gottwals. Drawing on his experience in food and farm development, Gottwals stressed the importance of “thinking regionally because economic development does not respect political [...]
