Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural Taxation
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Category : Development rights transfer
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Legislation Relating to Farmland Development Rights
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural Taxation
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Category : Development rights transfer
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Publisher:
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Category : Development rights transfer
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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National Agricultural Land Policy Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms, Rural Development, and Special Studies
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Agricultural Land Protection Act of 1979
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms, Rural Development, and Special Studies
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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The Law of the Land
Author: John Opie
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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In The Law of the Land John Opie argues that American agriculture has been and still is controlled by erroneous and harmful historical myths. Contrary to public opinion and textbook gospel, public land policy has often worked against the independent family farmer. The public land survey and sales system, going back to 1785 and covering the western two-thirds of the United States, was supposed to be the most equitable means of making land available to small farmers. Instead, this system encouraged the transfer of land into the hands of those involved primarily in speculation and the amassing of huge profits. The small, cash-poor farmer was the loser, but was still touted as the bulwark of private enterprise. The small farmer's position was further weakened by other systems of public land distribution that favored the railroads, speculators, and state and territorial claims, to cite some examples. The Law of the Land reveals the extent ot which government actions undermined or competed with the old survey and sale system. Ironically, only major federal interventions, including the Reclamation Act in 1902 and the formation of the Soil Conservation Service in 1935, could help the independent farmer. Opie turns his attention to new programs for the protection of farmland, which are often directed toward correction or even removal of the two-hundred-year-old land survey system and its basis in private property rights. He discusses new priorities and new planning that includes farmland preserves and controlled used and development through zoning and tax plans. The Law of the Land ends on a note of urgency. The survival of the independent family farm is at stake and a good deal more.
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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In The Law of the Land John Opie argues that American agriculture has been and still is controlled by erroneous and harmful historical myths. Contrary to public opinion and textbook gospel, public land policy has often worked against the independent family farmer. The public land survey and sales system, going back to 1785 and covering the western two-thirds of the United States, was supposed to be the most equitable means of making land available to small farmers. Instead, this system encouraged the transfer of land into the hands of those involved primarily in speculation and the amassing of huge profits. The small, cash-poor farmer was the loser, but was still touted as the bulwark of private enterprise. The small farmer's position was further weakened by other systems of public land distribution that favored the railroads, speculators, and state and territorial claims, to cite some examples. The Law of the Land reveals the extent ot which government actions undermined or competed with the old survey and sale system. Ironically, only major federal interventions, including the Reclamation Act in 1902 and the formation of the Soil Conservation Service in 1935, could help the independent farmer. Opie turns his attention to new programs for the protection of farmland, which are often directed toward correction or even removal of the two-hundred-year-old land survey system and its basis in private property rights. He discusses new priorities and new planning that includes farmland preserves and controlled used and development through zoning and tax plans. The Law of the Land ends on a note of urgency. The survival of the independent family farm is at stake and a good deal more.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Agriculture
Author: United States. Congress House. Committee on Agriculture
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Farmland Protection Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Environment, Soil Conservation, and Forestry
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Family Farm Development Act of 1980
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms, Rural Development, and Special Studies
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Category : Family farms
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Category : Family farms
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Legislation Relating to Farmland Development Rights
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural Taxation
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Category : Development rights transfer
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Category : Development rights transfer
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Vanishing Farmland
Author: Sarah E. Redfield
Publisher: Free Press
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Publisher: Free Press
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The Protection of Farmland
Author: Robert E. Coughlin
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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