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The Towns of Nelson, Cazenovia and Lincoln are working together to prepare Agriculture and Farmland Protection Plans for the three Towns. Your responses to the following questions will help the Steering Committee to evaluate opportunities and prepare strategies to support agriculture as a business and retain land for continued agricultural production.
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Which of the following best describes you?
| Full-time farmer |
| Part-time farmer |
| Landowner who rents or leases land to farmer |
| Landowner whose land was not used for agricultural production in 2010 |
| Other, please specify |
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Where is your land? (Check all that apply)
| Town of Nelson |
| Town of Cazenovia |
| Town of Lincoln |
| Other, please specify |
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If some of your land was rented or leased,
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If you do not farm your land, you are done. Thank you! The next questions are for farmers.
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What are the principal products produced on the farm (corn, soybeans, hay vegetables, dairy, other livestock, etc.)?
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What other products are produced on the farm?
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Does your farm operation use any rented land?
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If your rented land were no longer available, how would that affect your farm operation?
| Serious impact |
| Moderate impact |
| Slight or no impact |
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If additional land were available at an affordable price, would you be interested in: Buying more land
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When you retire from farming, what is most likely to happen to the farmland you own?
| Family member will continue to farm the land |
| Land will be sold to another farmer |
| Land will be sold for development |
| Other, please specify |
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What are the biggest challenges to the long-term viability of your farm operation? (Check all that apply)
| Lack of suitable land at an affordable price |
| Excessive government regulations |
| Labor issues (availability/cost) |
| Residential neighbors make it difficult to farm |
| Low commodity prices/High production costs |
| Poor drainage / maintenance of drainage improvements |
| Lack of public understanding of the value of agriculture to the community and the regional economy |
| Next genereation of family not interested in farming |
| Other, please specify |
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For the following statements, please indicate your thoughts (a,b,c,d or e) regarding support for actions that could be undertaken by the Town, County or State government to support agriculture.
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Public purchase of development rights to farmland
| a Strongly support |
| b Moderately support |
| c Moderately oppose |
| d Strongly oppose |
| e Don't know / Need more information |
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Private conservation easements on farmland
| a Strongly support |
| b Moderately support |
| c Moderately oppose |
| d Strongly oppose |
| e Don't know / Need more information |
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Land use regulations that limit development in areas with high quality farmland
| a Strongly support |
| b Moderately support |
| c Moderately oppose |
| d Strongly oppose |
| e Don't know / Need more information |
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