MILWAUKEE (AP)-the part of the relatively new State of the program is designed to fill the growing country would eliminate the .gov Scott Walker on the budget, click to clear the 3,5 million dollar Wisconsin n the deficit over the next two years.
Supporters say the programme to deal with a serious, Walker moved to protect permanently impact the development of agricultural land.
Walker's 2011 budget proposal-' 13, by deleting "(growing sheds) for agricultural protection recommends that, in the programme to $ 12 million of liabilities and borrowing that the acquisition was financed by the programme in 2009.
As the pace of the program is part of the State and initiative of the Secretary of the agricultural Lands on the late Rod Nilsestuen to protect agricultural development and slow down the loss of agricultural land, championed. The initiative also includes farmland preservation ZONING, tax credits and agricultural areas with environmental restrictions as a result, the creation of the company.
The initiative was adopted when the State was losing approximately 30 000 acres of agricultural land per year.
PACE, in accordance with the terms of the State would use the $ 12 million in local government and nonprofit conservation easements to conservation groups in the agriculture subsidies to buy from farmers. The State would provide up to 50% of the money to purchase and the Governments and nonprofit groups need to be carried out under the responsibility of the State resources.
Easement which would prohibit the development of the land is not available, or agricultural use, inappropriate agricultural Department.
The last year of the six districts-16 farms Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Iowa, Jefferson, and the Waupaca-36 applications were selected for the program, and approximately 5 million dollars had been allocated to purchase easements.
But the move to eliminate the financial Walker n is placed on hold plans to permanently protect these holdings 5,779 acres, said Jeff Lyon, Deputy Secretary, Department of Agriculture, trade and consumer protection.
One of the 233 farms, Pointe, the Dodge County Ashippun. It is located in the area of 31,600 hotel to the place of the city of Oconomowoc Ashippun and County, the State-of-the-art business, recently named in the agricultural area.
The idea is a large, contiguous areas of maintaining the working activities of the agricultural development of the country, which violates any of the fields, and to promote the development of the productive agricultural activities in the regions.
So far, has been created in the State in those areas, 12.
16. in so far as they are completing the facilities of the Division had the paper work and stress-related agreements. However, Lyon said, would not be sensible to sign contracts with the financing of the research period.
Walker does not require the implementation of the budget proposals for the approval of the Assembly and the Senate.
"Of course, it is your turn now to the Community legislature to deal with the budget, and we do not know what the end result is the" Lyon said.
Bill Berry, spokesman for the American Farmland Trust, said there is broad support for the conservation of the program. He said his organization and the Madison-based gathering waters Conservancy, which has dealt with the preservation of farmland, to encourage people to tell the Governor and lawmakers to save the pace.
Tall Pines, which helped create the Conservancy ag zone in place of the regions, the Dodge, and also to try to save the pace.
"The program will help you to be able to maintain by innovators in gathering the next generation of the industry by offering this as an alternative to the Wisconsin sales status, when the retirement. Susan Buchanan, Nashotah Tall Pines Executive Director can help keep the extensive cultivation of agricultural land, to continue the economic viability of, and as a matter of fact, the increase is also "said.
The program places a check mark in the debt
Walker, spokesman for Cullen Werwie said, adding that the State debt must be cut programs.
"In order to balance Wisconsin's budget and for our State, once again, the 2011-13 draft budget ', makes several changes to programs that rely on borrowing," he said.
Berry said, "we have just hate to see a really good program, just as much promise to remove even the opportunity to demonstrate how well it works with the air."
"We had the date of the month will not be able to work with farmland preservation initiative to work with the tools you don't Cut to stop the development of rural Wisconsin, and some of the best farming land in the Unforgiving," Berry said.
When the economy gets rolling again, Berry said, the loss of agricultural land is likely to be restored.
Throughout the State, there are approximately 78,000 holdings and 16 million acres as a reliable method to the bottom of the gross tonnage of 110 000 farms and 20.1 million acres, according to the latest figures of the 1970s in the Agriculture Department.
Lyon, Vice-President of the Agriculture Secretary said the other parts remain stationary, working Lands initiative, including ZONING, as well as the preservation of agricultural land and income tax credits for those farmers who undertake to keep the country working on the farm with the countries of production.
"Currently, the Governor of the budget, the farmland preservation the meat and potatoes still exists. Quite frankly, if we can make these kinds of things, we keep more land than the PACE program through the "Lyon
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