Agriculture and Farmland Protection Plan - Town of Liberty

Draft Town of Liberty Agriculture and
Farmland Protection Plan
(12) Develop and maintain an up-todate
list of all farms in Sullivan
County.
State Initiatives
(not in any priority order)
(1) Provide additional incentives to
landowners who rent their land for
farmland to maintain the rented
land farm base.
(2) Create additional funding streams to assist towns
and counties to implement the Ag and Farmland
Protection Plans the State has already sponsored.
(3) Lower the gross sales limits a farmer needs in
order to be eligible to receive ag assessments
(currently $10,000 or more if 7 acres are farmed
or $50,000 if less than 7 acres are farmed).
(4) Increase the Farm to School initiatives.
(5) Expand local options for raising funds for PDR and
LDR programs including allowing for use of real
estate transfer taxes.
(6) Provide funding to reduce farm production costs
through the use of on-farm methane digesters
and solar or small wind facilities to reduce energy
costs for farms.
(7) Allow local governments to use the penalties that
are collected when land that has received ag
assessments is taken out of production to be used
for local PDR funding and other new farm
incentives.
(8) Create county by county information on cost of
services, cost/benefit analyses, economic
multipliers, and fiscal impacts of land conversion.
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