Agricultural Land

Down Market is Prime Time for Preservation

Howard County, Maryland's Agricultural Land Preservation Program has taken advantage of the down market to purchase more than 1,000 acres of farmland.
12 September 2011 - 9:00am
The Baltimore Sun

An Udder Failure...

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 14:39

A couple of weeks ago, the South Dakota Supreme Court in Anderson v. Town of Badger held that a town had the power to grant a waiver of a distance requirement set by Kingsbury County for a CAFO. Click here for the decision.

Wait a minute. Why wouldn’t you want to live near a CAFO? What’s a CAFO? It’s not Community Association Facility Operations. It’s not Centralized Area of Fun Outside …no, it’s Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, something akin to dinner time at my fraternity house in the mid-1960s…

Finding a Middle Ground Between Rural and Urban

A new city being planned on 77 acres of agricultural land in Oregon has prompted some to question the hard difference between urban and rural as compartmentalized by the Portland area's urban growth boundary.
11 August 2009 - 5:00am
The Oregonian

Farming Wind in Oregon

This segment form Oregon Public Broadcasting looks at the rise of wind farms in rural Oregon.
5 May 2009 - 10:00am
Oregon Public Broadcasting
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