Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced a record-breaking $35 million has been awarded to 40 farms across 19 counties in the state to protect 13,000 acres of agricultural land. The grants are part of the state’s Farmland Protection Implementation Grant program. “New York’s farms are key economic drivers for communities across the State, and these […]
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced a record-breaking $35 million has been awarded to 40 farms across 19 counties in the state to protect 13,000 acres of agricultural land. The grants are part of the state’s Farmland Protection Implementation Grant program.
“New York’s farms are key economic drivers for communities across the State, and these investments will help support and sustain them for generations to come,” Cuomo said in a news release. “With record funding that will preserve 13,000 acres of farmland, we are helping New York’s agricultural industry continue to grow and produce the high quality goods that consumers have come to expect from the Empire State.”
The Farmland Protection Impleme-ntation Grant program provides local governments, soil and water conservation districts, and land trusts with grants to offset costs of conservation easements to protect viable agricultural land from being converted to non-agricultural use.
For the first time, the awarded funds allow for the use of preemptive purchase rights, which encourage agricultural land to remain in active production and require that it be sold to other farmers at its agricultural value.
The program is funded through New York State’s Environmental Protection Fund in the state budget. More than$283 million has been awarded to farmland protection projects since 1996 and nearly 289 projects have protected more than 73,000 acres of farmland in New York state.
The awards include:
• Central New York:$7.7 million for seven projects totaling 3,343 acres
• Capital Region: $7.4 million for 15 projects totaling 3,492 acres
• Finger Lakes: $10.1 million for eight projects totaling 4,089 acres
• Mid-Hudson Valley: $8.7 million for eight projects totaling 1,606 acres
• Western New York: $0.9 million for two projects totaling 446 acres
The state also recently announced nearly $8.5 million has been provided in support of conservation easement projects on several New York dairy farms. That Farmland Protection Implementation Grant opportunity is “helping to ensure dairy farms the opportunity to diversify their operations or transition their farm to the next generation at a more affordable cost while ensuring the land forever remains used for agricultural purposes,” the release stated. Funding for the grant opportunity for dairy farms is still available and the department is encouraging its partners in the farmland protection program across the state to apply, the release noted. Additional information can be found on the department’s website at https://www.agriculture.ny.gov/RFPS.html.
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced a record-breaking $35 million has been awarded to 40 farms across 19 counties in the state to protect 13,000 acres of agricultural land. The grants are part of the state’s Farmland Protection Implementation Grant program.
“New York’s farms are key economic drivers for communities across the State, and these investments will help support and sustain them for generations to come,” Cuomo said in a news release. “With record funding that will preserve 13,000 acres of farmland, we are helping New York’s agricultural industry continue to grow and produce the high quality goods that consumers have come to expect from the Empire State.”
The Farmland Protection Impleme-ntation Grant program provides local governments, soil and water conservation districts, and land trusts with grants to offset costs of conservation easements to protect viable agricultural land from being converted to non-agricultural use.
For the first time, the awarded funds allow for the use of preemptive purchase rights, which encourage agricultural land to remain in active production and require that it be sold to other farmers at its agricultural value.
The program is funded through New York State’s Environmental Protection Fund in the state budget. More than$283 million has been awarded to farmland protection projects since 1996 and nearly 289 projects have protected more than 73,000 acres of farmland in New York state.
The awards include:
• Central New York:$7.7 million for seven projects totaling 3,343 acres
• Capital Region: $7.4 million for 15 projects totaling 3,492 acres
• Finger Lakes: $10.1 million for eight projects totaling 4,089 acres
• Mid-Hudson Valley: $8.7 million for eight projects totaling 1,606 acres
• Western New York: $0.9 million for two projects totaling 446 acres
The state also recently announced nearly $8.5 million has been provided in support of conservation easement projects on several New York dairy farms. That Farmland Protection Implementation Grant opportunity is “helping to ensure dairy farms the opportunity to diversify their operations or transition their farm to the next generation at a more affordable cost while ensuring the land forever remains used for agricultural purposes,” the release stated. Funding for the grant opportunity for dairy farms is still available and the department is encouraging its partners in the farmland protection program across the state to apply, the release noted. Additional information can be found on the department’s website at https://www.agriculture.ny.gov/RFPS.html.
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced a record-breaking $35 million has been awarded to 40 farms across 19 counties in the state to protect 13,000 acres of agricultural land. The grants are part of the state’s Farmland Protection Implementation Grant program. “New York’s farms are key economic drivers for communities across the State, and these […]
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced a record-breaking $35 million has been awarded to 40 farms across 19 counties in the state to protect 13,000 acres of agricultural land. The grants are part of the state’s Farmland Protection Implementation Grant program.
“New York’s farms are key economic drivers for communities across the State, and these investments will help support and sustain them for generations to come,” Cuomo said in a news release. “With record funding that will preserve 13,000 acres of farmland, we are helping New York’s agricultural industry continue to grow and produce the high quality goods that consumers have come to expect from the Empire State.”
The Farmland Protection Impleme-ntation Grant program provides local governments, soil and water conservation districts, and land trusts with grants to offset costs of conservation easements to protect viable agricultural land from being converted to non-agricultural use.
For the first time, the awarded funds allow for the use of preemptive purchase rights, which encourage agricultural land to remain in active production and require that it be sold to other farmers at its agricultural value.
The program is funded through New York State’s Environmental Protection Fund in the state budget. More than$283 million has been awarded to farmland protection projects since 1996 and nearly 289 projects have protected more than 73,000 acres of farmland in New York state.
The awards include:
• Central New York:$7.7 million for seven projects totaling 3,343 acres
• Capital Region: $7.4 million for 15 projects totaling 3,492 acres
• Finger Lakes: $10.1 million for eight projects totaling 4,089 acres
• Mid-Hudson Valley: $8.7 million for eight projects totaling 1,606 acres
• Western New York: $0.9 million for two projects totaling 446 acres
The state also recently announced nearly $8.5 million has been provided in support of conservation easement projects on several New York dairy farms. That Farmland Protection Implementation Grant opportunity is “helping to ensure dairy farms the opportunity to diversify their operations or transition their farm to the next generation at a more affordable cost while ensuring the land forever remains used for agricultural purposes,” the release stated. Funding for the grant opportunity for dairy farms is still available and the department is encouraging its partners in the farmland protection program across the state to apply, the release noted. Additional information can be found on the department’s website at https://www.agriculture.ny.gov/RFPS.html.
