About FPR
Susan Washinski of DE Dept of Agriculture
Farmland Preservation Report is helping professionals in planning, conservation and agriculture, as well as elected officials and citizen leaders, to do their best to protect farmland in urbanizing regions. If you are charged with protecting farmland in your locality, FPR is an information and networking source you don’t want to work without.
You get information that will help you in your work
Farmland Preservation Report regularly surveys existing programs and their progress and keeps you up to date on new programs and how they are being put together. Many local governments have created their own farmland preservation programs in addition to state programs, or without the existence of a state program. Learn how your locality can get started!
You will get ideas on how your locality might approach its preservation mandate, or, how you might improve current practice and policy. You will soon find you won’t want to work without Farmland Preservation Report.
You will see, in every issue, news about techniques for preserving farmland in use across the country, operating at the state and local levels.
Learn about:
- purchasing development rights
- federal matching funds
- agricultural districting
- zoning for long-term agriculture
- food system development
- transfer of development rights
- agricultural economic development
- working with land trusts
- court decisions
Each article is packed with details you will find useful in your work – in writing reports and proposals, in solving administrative problems, in developing new programs and winning public support.
You receive a networking tool and instant colleagues
And, if you need more information, we will provide you with the name and contact information of someone who can give you advice for your particular circumstances– your conservation colleague next door or across the country. As a subscriber, you become a member of a group of pros who are pleased to share information, and we are always happy to answer your phone call or email with your particular query.
About Us
Editor and publisher Deborah Bowers has been researching and writing about farmland preservation for more than 20 years. She is co-author of Holding Our Ground ~ Protecting America’s Farms and Farmland, and has provided expert advice to numerous localities and states. She is “in the know” when it comes to the best people to ask and the best techniques in use or on trial across the country that might be a good match for your locality’s particular concerns. Deborah Bowers speaks to groups of citizens, elected officials, and program administrators nationwide. She was instrumental in creating the Harford County, Md., purchase of development rights program, one of the nation’s top programs, and has been a principal researcher in several national studies of farmland protection programs.
Senior Contributing Editor Tom Daniels is professor of planning at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a nationally known expert and the nation’s most in-demand consultant on farmland preservation and planning for agriculture. He is the author of When City and Country Collide and co-author, with Bowers, of Holding Our Ground as well as other books, including The Small Town Planning Handbook and The Environmental Planning Handbook. For nine years he served as director of the nation’s most successful locally-operated farmland preservation program in Lancaster County, Pa. Daniels reviews books for FPR and writes a monthly column.
Contributing editor Bob Heuer is an agricultural marketing consultant in Illinois with expertise in agri-finance and building coalitions to foster entrepreneurial agriculture on the urban edge nationwide.
Michael McGrath writes a monthly column for FPR. He is executive director of the Delaware Agricultural Lands Preservation Foundation, administering that state’s farmland preservation program, a position he has held since the program’s beginning in 1991. In 2010 his program celebrates the preservation of 100,000 acres.
Our subscriber list is the “Who’s Who” of farmland preservation. Shouldn’t you add your name?
You will read about people like yourself, in state agencies, local government commissions, the federal government, or working for land trusts, consulting firms, law offices, and universities, who are administering exciting farmland preservation programs or have found new ways to strengthen farming communities on the urban edge through food system development, zoning changes, marketing programs and policy choices.
You will learn about programs similar to yours, that have solved problems similar to those you are facing. And it will be so easy to get in touch with those who administer programs that interest you – just email editor Deborah Bowers or call her on the Subscriber Hotline at 410 692-2708!
Working on research for a presentation, thesis or book? As a subscriber, you can search our archives for any topic related to farmland preservation. We’ve published thousands of articles since we began publishing in 1990!
When you are an FPR subscriber, our editors will get right to work for you when you call with specific questions about policies and practices used by states and localities. We will use our indexes, special sources and files to get the answers you need right away, put you at ease, and on the right track. When your query is specific to your locality, you will see that one call to us, alone, is worth the price of subscription!
Your satisfaction is fully guaranteed
If you are not completely pleased with the information and benefits you receive as a subscriber to Farmland Preservation Report, just let us know, and we will promptly send a refund.
Count yourself among the well-informed
Don’t be left out. By subscribing to Farmland Preservation Report, you will be joining a community of professionals and leaders who seek to promote and strengthen farmland preservation by keeping up to date on all the related issues that influence farmland retention policy and law-making. You will be one of the insiders – the best informed preservation professionals in the nation.
During a year’s subscription, you get in-depth, intelligent reporting on:
- State farmland preservation programs in DE, MD, PA, VT, NY, NJ, CA, MA, CT, RI, KY, VA, WV, OH, MI, FL, NC, GA, ME, WI and coming soon – we hope – more states, as new programs are created!
- Scores of local farmland preservation programs operated and funded by local governments;
- Land use techniques that aid farmland protection, such as effective ag zoning, transfer of development rights, urban growth boundaries;
- News from Capitol Hill and the White House that will affect farmland protection such as President Obama’s new Great Outdoors Initiative;
- Update briefs from the state capitols where farmland protection is on the move;
- Public, private and nonprofit initiatives that affect farmland preservation;
- Court decisions that affect farmland preservation policy or practice.
FPR is a professional news publication, so our reporting is fully independent. You get pertinent and useful information and analysis, our searchable archives and our hotline service all for just $215 per year – about $18 per month for your own personal reporter and researcher who keeps your specific information needs in mind. There is no better value in the farmland preservation field!
If you are involved, or soon to be involved in an effort to protect farmland from development, you can’t afford not to provide yourself with the value in this tremendous offer! Join the nation’s best informed farmland protection specialists today!
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