agri Resources

Much of the information for the descriptions of farmland conservation tools is taken from materials published by the American Farmland Trust [www.farmlandinfo.org] and its publication, Saving American Farmland: What Works; Holding Our Common Ground – Protecting America’s Countryside, by Tom Daniels and Deborah Bowers [Island Press, 1997]; The Purchase of Development Rights, Agricultural Preservation and Other Land Use Policy Tools – The Pennsylvania Experience, by Tom Daniels ndation.org/1998NPPEC/daniels.pdf]. In Florida, information on planning tools to conserve farmland and on Florida’s agricultural industries is available from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services [www.doacs.state.fl.us]; 1000 Friends of Florida [www.1000fof.org]; the Conservation Trust for Florida [www.conserveflorida.org]; the Florida office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources and Conservation Service [www.fl.nrcs.usda.gov], which has field offices throughout the state; and the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences [www.ifas.ufl.edu] Agricultural Extension offices.