Agricultural Preservation

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Agricultural Preservation
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Critical Threats To Agriculture

• Land Use and Zoning
• Overburdensome Regulations
• Pest
• Disease
• Inclement Weather

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Land Use and Zoning

• Buying/Selling Development Rights
• One way to generate dollars to diversify
  operations.
• Concern Value based on best land
• use.

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Endangered or Threatened Species

• Recognize the fact that some endangered or
  threatened species can coexist with agricultural
  operations.
• Cost share programs to farmers who have such
  species on their operations.
• Relocation costs of species deemed necessary by
  the general public should be shared and not all
  expense fall on the land owner/farmer

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Over Burdensome Regulations

• Streamline regulatory aspects to eliminate
  duplication.
• Make regulations more practical, user friendly
  and more economically feasible.
• Concern Ag is regulated by numerous agencies.
• Water
• Safety
• Labor
• Health
• Land Use
• DEP
• Army Corp Of Engineers
• Department of Interior
• Local Governments
• Many agencies often duplicate regulations and at
  times even conflict with each other.

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Pest

• Ports inspections should be increased to insure
  that foreign pest are not introduced into the
  country.
• Continued research to develop new technologies in
  pest control.

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Disease

• Adequate research and research dollars to manage
  or eradicate diseases that affect agriculture.
• Brucellosis
• Canker
• Greening

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Inclement Weather

• Agriculture should be considered part of National
  Security.
• Improved procedures to insure agriculturalists
  overcome natural disasters. (Recovery Process)
• Streamlined insurance processing to assist in the
  event of natural disasters.

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The Most Effective Way To Preserve Agriculture.
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Enable It to Be Profitable !
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Let Farmers Farm