• Pennsylvania -- purchase of agricultural conservation easements
  PACE law | PACE rules
  
  
• Maryland -- "Twenty-five Years of Protecting Farmland: An Evaluation of the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation, Summary Report."
  
  "The Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation, Annual Report for FY 2002"
  
  
• Massachusetts -- Agricultural Preservation Restriction program law
  
  
• Colorado -- conservation easement tax credit
  
  Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts paper on best practices
  
  
• Vermont -- ag preservation fund
  Law | Rules | Ag policy
  
  
• Arizona -- conservation easement tax credit
  
  
• Connecticut -- conservation easement tax credit
  
  
• Directory of state conservation easement programs
  
  
• Directory of state conservation easement tax incentive programs
  
  
• Maryland, Harford County -- agricultural preservation tax credits
  See also Harford County Ag Land Preservation Program
  
  
• Kentucky -- enabling legislation for transfer of development rights
  
  
• Utah, Cache County -- "Executive Summary, Cache County TDR Feasibility Study," draft October 2003.
  
  
• New Jersey, Burlington County -- TDR Demonstration Act (Access the relevant section by clicking on the SEARCH button in the gold frame below the text being displayed from the Statutes database.)
  
  

AGRICULTURAL VIABILITY PROGRAMS

• Massachusetts -- Farm Viability Enhancement Program
  Guidelines | Request for Responses
  
  
• Nebraska -- Beginning Farmer tax credit act
  
  
• New York -- farm property tax circuit breaker
  
  See also definition of "land used in agricultural production" at section 301.4 (page 18) in Article 25AA - Agricultural Districts
  
  
• Illinois -- AgriFIRST grant program
  
  
• Iowa -- Beginning Farmer Center
  
  
• Michigan -- Greenstone Farm Credit Service (private lender), Young, Beginning & Small Farmer Program
  
                   -- real property tax circuit breaker
  
  
• California -- Williamson Act (real property tax incentives)
  
  
• State agricultural financing programs
  
                   "State aggie bond programs," Technical memo, American Farmland Trust
  
                   "Types of State Agricultural Finance Programs," National Council of State Agricultural Finance Programs
  
  
• Ken Meter, "Business Plan for the Hiawatha Fund: A Regional Investment Fund for Southeast Minnesota," envisioned to be a source for agricultural finance

AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT PROGRAMS & ENTERPRISE ZONE INFORMATION

• Michigan -- Tax-Free Agricultural Processing Renaissance Zones, Michigan Department of Agriculture
  
  
  • Agricultural Processing Renaissance Zone legislation
    
    
  • Renaissance Zone legislation
    
    
    
• Pennsylvania -- agricultural security areas
  
  
• New York -- agricultural districts law
  
  
• Hawaii -- State enterprise zone program website
  
  
• One-stop for Enterprise Zones in US. Caution: not all the links are still valid.
  
  
• Virginia -- Agricultural Enterprise Zone bill
  
  
• American Farmland Trust, Agricultural Disctrict Programs Fact Sheet

AGRICULTURAL TAX INCENTIVES

• Oklahoma -- producers tax credit
  
  
• Iowa -- value-added agriculture investment tax credit
  
  
• Missouri -- New generation Cooperative Incentive
  
  
• Colorado -- agriculture value-added development
  
  
• North Dakota -- agricultural cooperative income tax credit

LAND USE PLANS & ORDINANCES RELATED TO AGRICULTURE

• Marin County, CA
  
  General Plan
  
  Executive Summary for Ag Element of General Plan
  
  
• Skagit County, WA
  
  Land Use Element of County Comprehensive Plan, see Agricultural - Natural Resource Lands on pg. 13
  
  Zoning Code, see Ag Land Preservation provision on pg. 77
  
  Conservation Futures Program (PDR)
  
  
• Lexington / Fayette, KY
  
  Land Use Element of Comprehensive Plan
  
  see also pg. 55
  
  
• Montgomery County, MD
  
  Preservation of Agriculture and Rural Open Space Functional Master Plan
  
  Recommendations on clustering, TDR, and PDR
  
  Office of Agricultural Services (administrator of ag programs)
  
  
• Hatfield, MA
  
  Master Plan, the Ag Element is on Page 38, see also section on Development and Economic Character
  
  Zoning ordinance (TDR, Sec. 6.1; cluster, Sec 6.2)
  
  
• US Department of Energy, Compendium of Land Use Ordinances and Codes, see category, “Agricultural Land Protection”

WORKSHOP PRESENTATION

• Ellen Dayhoff, farmer and Director, Adams County, PA, Agricultural Land Preserve Program
  
  “PDRs and Their Effect on Land Use Decisions and Ag Viability”
  
  “Adams County, Pennsylvania, Agricultural Land Preservation”
  
  "Pennsylvania's Agricultural Security Area Law"
  
  
• Bob Wagner, Assistant Vice President for field programs, American Farmland Trust
  
  “Incentives to Promote Farming and Farmland Preservation”
  
  
• Jay Healy, farmer and former Commissioner of Agriculture, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  
  “Farm Viability Business Skills”