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Farmland
preservation moves ahead — 03/06/2007
La Crosse County is moving slowly toward preserving farmland by
buying development rights. Monday, the county board voted to start
work on a pilot program for 2008. Based on the results, the county
could ask voters for permission to raise taxes to... Full Article
at La Crosse Tribune »
Working
lands - Initiative calls for protection of state’s farms,
forests — 03/05/2007
An agricultural preservation plan should be part of every land use
plan. That was one of the messages from Keith Foye of the Wisconsin
Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection during
a break-out session on the Wisconsin Working Lan... Full Article
at Dunn County News »
Session
to focus on land use planning — 02/07/2007
When Wisconsin's farmers retire, their choices are to sell the land
to another farmer for about $2,818 an acre or sell to a developer
for about $10,916 an acre. In the first choice, the retiree loses.
In the second, the neighboring farmer not only... Full Article at
Appleton Post-Crescent »
Editorial:
Vanishing croplands — 02/06/2007
Preserving farmland could pay off for Wisconsin with the nation's
new interest in ethanol and other biofuels. Drive on rural roads
through southeastern Wisconsin on a chilly February day, and you
can still find acres of windblown fields of white str... Full Article
at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel »
Losing
land, opportunity — 01/28/2007
Wisconsin is losing cropland faster than any other state in the
breadbasket of the nation, the Midwest, jeopardizing not only the
state's farm economy but also its profitability in the emerging
biofuels industry, agriculture and land use, officials s... Full
Article at Journal Sentinel »
Development
issue to go before voters — 01/09/2007
Washington County voters will decide April 3 whether to establish
the state's first countywide purchase-of-development rights program
that would pay landowners not to develop agricultural land. The
Washington County Board today agreed to place a r... Full Article»
Editorial:
Preserving the disappearing Wisconsin farm — 12/23/2006
Few industries are as relentlessly productive as America's farmers.
A new report by the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance makes the point:
Wisconsin farmers are using more than 20% less farmland than they
did in 1970, but yields for major crops - corn, mil... Full Article
at Journal Sentinel »
Editorial:
Let the voters decide — 12/17/2006
We felt it was a mistake in June when the Washington County Board
rescinded a program aimed at helping farmers resist the pressures
of development and at preserving some of the prime agricultural
land in the county. But the board could act soon after... Full Article
at Journal Sentinel »
County could pony up to save farmland from development —
12/13/2006
La Crosse County in the future could buy development rights to farmland
so it won’t be plowed under for subdivisions or shopping centers.
The La Crosse County Board has given planner Charlie Handy three
months to work up a purchase of development ... Full Article at
La Crosse Tribune »
This compilation of PDR news page was last
updated March 26, 2007.
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