American Farmland Trust

… ost three decades ago, more than 1,250 First State farms and almost 160,000 acres have been preserved. In 2020, the American Farmland Trust ranked Delaware’s Aglands Preservation Program as the best example of its kind in the nation. DDA PERFORMANCE MEASU …

… ost three decades ago, more than 1,250 First State farms and almost 160,000 acres have been preserved. In 2020, the American Farmland Trust ranked Delaware’s Aglands Preservation Program as the best example of its kind in the nation. DDA PERFORMANCE MEASU …

… ware that is more fair than this one, designed to keep viable our state’s most economically significant industry. The American Farmland Trust puts Dela- ware’s farmland preservation second only to New Jersey’s in terms of effectiveness, ac- cording to a repor …

… been fairly disastrous in many ways, it’s important to keep the funding steady for this $8 billion industry. Another American Farmland Trust report points out Delaware as number 10 of the 12 states with the most threatened agricultural land, noting that a su …

… re-aglands-program-ranks-second-in-u-s-for-preserv- ing-farmland/article_5570b2fa-b4d2-11ea-b555-2fc550145c39.html 2 American Farmland Trust, 2020 What’s at stake when we pave over, fragment and otherwise fail to protect farm- land from the disruptions of de …

… therwise fail to protect farm- land from the disruptions of development? https://farmland.org/fut-national-pr/ 3 American Farmland Trust, Cost of Community Services Studies 2016 https://conservationtools-produc- tion.s3.amazonaws.com/library_item_files/ …

… nSpace Alliance and Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, 2010 http://www.dvrpc.org/reports/11033B.pdf 4 American Farmland Trust, Cost of Community Services Studies 2016 https://conservationtools- produc- tion.s3.amazonaws.com/library_item_file …