[PCA] NEWS: Green Acres changes are bad for farming, conservation (MN)

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.dglobe.com/articles/index.cfm?id=16805&section=Opinion

Green Acres changes are bad for farming, conservation
Heidi Morlock, Belle Plaine, Worthington Daily Globe
Published Wednesday, December 03, 2008

The Minnesota Legislature made changes last year to the Green Acres 
program that are bad for farmers and bad for conservation. My family farm 
in Scott County is in the Green Acres program. It is currently owned by my 
mom. I live on the faun along with my husband and two children. Green 
Acres allows us to pay taxes on the property as farmland and not the 
development value. This has made it possible for us to keep the family 
farm even as development in our area is dramatically driving up the price 
of land around us.

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