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LAST week, we noted with interest the program being inaugurated in Suffolk County, N. Y., to purchase farmer’s development rights, in an effort to preserve what agricultural land is left in that highly developed Long Island community. This week we pass along some information about a similar program being tried in New Jersey, on a statewide basis.
In New Jersey, a $5 million demonstration project is under way less than 20 miles from the metropolitan Philadelphia area. As in Suffolk County, farmers will be paid the difference between what their land is worth for agriculture and for development, with the land then being locked permanently in agriculture.
New Jersey, as does Virginia, already has a method of special farmland assessments, which was designed to slow down the conversion of agricultural acres to subdivisions. The New Jersey measure accomplished what it set out to do, but the problem still exists. As one state official put it: “Corn can’t com
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