In 2013, 20 of 33 applying farms are qualified for preservation. The total fund available is $3,339,024. This includes a county commitment of $1,025,405, a township contribution of $200,000, and state funding of $2,113,619.
Northampton County ranked 5th in terms of county commitments, behind Chester, Lancaster, Bucks and Berks Counties.
The other 52 participating counties committed $350,000 or less to their farmland preservation programs for this year.
Lehigh County has committed approximately $220,000.
Pennsylvania is the nation's nation’s leading farmland preservation program. Over 25 years, the state has preserved 4,385 farms totaling 470,000 acres with $1.1 billion dollars..
5 comments:
There is no better advocate for preservation than Sterling. He is the farmer's farmer!
Lehigh is at the point where land is getting hard to get. The county has had a very aggressive acquisition program in recent years.
What is the status of Lehigh County's Green Future fund? Are they doing away with it?
Farmland should only be preserved if it is to be returned to forest land, it's original condition before being clear cut.
12:41 makes a valid point.
Yesterday ,we saw the signs at indicated farm preservation .Now ,I don't disagree with helping a farm ,a farmer or support of our agrarian society from people like ABE that just push development.QUESTION, then do tax payers have recreational rights to the track of protected ground-of coarse less crop damages?
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