Retention of Land for Agriculture


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The only complete state-by-state analysis of programs to conserve farmland in New England, this book shows that local support and active cooperation of farm owners are keys to success. In evaluating a broad range of farmland protection programs, the authors also examine the role of federal, state, and municipal government.













Vanishing Farmland


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Land-Use Policy and Farmland Retention


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Excerpt from Land-Use Policy and Farmland Retention: The United States' Experience Several studies of the performance of use - value assessment in the United States have recently been completed (carman and Polson, (gustafson and Wallace, (henke, (international Association of Assessing Officers, (regional Science Research Institute, and (schwartz, These studies all basically conclude that use-value assessment is, at best, marginally effective in reducing the rate of conversion of farmland to other uses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.