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“Right-to-Fann” Laws
Yet the protection of farmland is largely up to states and local governments, the NALS adds. Some steps already have been taken. Forty-eight states—all but Georgia and Kansas—offer some form of property tax relief for farmers. Sixteen have adopted "right-to-farm” legislation that protects farmers from nuisance lawsuits and from local ordinances restricting normal farm practices.
Other efforts to protect farmland include voluntary agricultural districts; agricultural zoning, adopted by Hawaii and 270 local governments; the purchase or. transfer of development rights on farmland; and comprehensive management plans. w
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