The preservation of a Butler County farm has helped a state program reach a milestone.
Pennsylvania’s Farmland Preservation Program leads the nation in the number of farms and the number of farm acres that have been preserved in perpetuity for agricultural production. With the addition of 26 new farms, the program has now surpassed the 5,000-farm mark.
“Preserving Pennsylvania’s best farmland is an investment in our heritage, in our economy, in our ability to sustain ourselves, and in our environment,” said Redding. “Across the state – for decades now – some of our most productive lands have been lost forever to development. And those pressures continue. Protecting our agricultural industry and our ability to grow and produce food is a strategic and economic imperative for us as a state. To do that requires that we preserve the precious asset that is our state’s farmland.”
The addition of a group of farms- including the E. and J. Webb Farm in Butler County- helped push the preservation program over the 5,000 farm mark. The E. and J. Webb Farm is a 228-acre crop and livestock operation in Butler County.
Farms in 15 other counties, including in Adams, Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Fayette, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lawrence, Lehigh, Montgomery,
Northampton, Westmoreland and York, were preserved.
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