60:. There are presently about 1.1 million acres in farms in the state, which is over 600,000 acres less than in 1950. Due largely to forces external to itself, agriculture in New Jersey is operating under the influence of an impermanence syndrome which leads to short-term decision making, less investment in agricultural enterprises, and slower technological adaptation. This can be corrected by creating a permanent land preserve for agricultural production and by making it feasible for farmers to farm this land and make a profit. This report addresses itself to both of these objectives."
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to create the
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farms in order to ensure they remain as farms, and could never be sold for housing or for non-farming commercial development. The effect was to slow farmland loss in the state. The farmland preservation efforts made in New Jersey have effectively kept the farms as private land with a public legacy of
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announced his firm belief in the need for a
Blueprint Commission on the Future of New Jersey Agriculture. This followed the desires of the agricultural community as expressed in resolutions of the State Agricultural Convention, which in turn had been generated earlier by the concern of leading farm
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into legislation. The Act enabled the establishment of County
Agriculture Development Boards (CADB's) and specified their membership and function, provided for the establishment of voluntary farmland preservation programs, and authorized the purchase of development easements and the funding of soil
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Gov. Kean is expected to sign two major bills affecting the future of farming in New Jersey at a ceremony today the 68th State
Agricultural Convention in Cherry Hill. One of those bills, the Agriculture Retention and Development Act, seeks to keep New Jersey green by having the government buy
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by establishing eight task forces. These groups covered business climate, research and education, production, marketing, management and commercial services, land and water resources,
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permanent farm status. As of July 2022, New Jersey has permanently preserved 2,800 farms covering 247,517 acres.
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