ROOM AT THE TABLE - Intersight - University at Buffalo
ROOM AT THE TABLE - Intersight - University at Buffalo
ROOM AT THE TABLE - Intersight - University at Buffalo
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A. Fiscal Incentive Policies<br />
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or for third parties who engage in the food production process, which in<br />
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ab<strong>at</strong>ements, food procurement policies, and others.<br />
Dane County, Wisconsin, loc<strong>at</strong>ion of the st<strong>at</strong>e capital Madison, has<br />
taken advantage of st<strong>at</strong>ewide property tax credit opportunities to provide its<br />
individual farmers with up to $4,200 credit per property ab<strong>at</strong>ed annually. 1<br />
According to the st<strong>at</strong>e st<strong>at</strong>ute, tax credits may be claimed by individual<br />
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preserv<strong>at</strong>ion plan, and if the property is zoned exclusively within the<br />
agricultural district. Dane County has cre<strong>at</strong>ed such districts since 1981<br />
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allowance as a result.<br />
Using a more ambitious tax ab<strong>at</strong>ement structure, connected to its<br />
organic food initi<strong>at</strong>ives, Iowa’s Woodbury County has instituted an “Organics<br />
Conversion Policy,” which grants the entire pool of transitioning participants<br />
up to $50,000 in real property tax reb<strong>at</strong>es annually to incentivize switching<br />
to organic farming among “conventional” farming with pesticides, tailored<br />
to any sized farm. 2<br />
Fiscal incentives may also come in the form of food procurement<br />
policies, which use preexisting channels of providing food for county<br />
institutions, and modifying them to incorpor<strong>at</strong>e as much locallyproduced<br />
food as possible. An example again comes from Woodbury County, where<br />
a resolution passed by the County requires publiclysupported facilities to<br />
purchase all local foods “in the usual course of business.” Local food is<br />
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of Sioux City, the county se<strong>at</strong>.<br />
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scholarships for local students considering becoming farmers. The Macomb<br />
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