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Bond In Investing Savings Saying they're in a race with developers looking for farmland to purchase, Gloucester County officials announced Tuesday they'll issue $10 million in bonds to speed up their farm preservation program.

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James Bond Trading Card The bond revenue would allow the county to permanently preserve 14 farms totaling 2,186 acres before a cumbersome state approval process is completed, Freeholder-Director Stephen Sweeney said. The parcels range from 7.8 acres on the Duffield farm in Washington Township to the 288-acre Horner farm in South Harrison. Other properties targeted for preservation are in Harrison, East Greenwich, Franklin, Elk and Deptford.

Bond In Investing Stock Some property owners have waited since 1999 to enter the preservation program, which pays farmers who accept deed restrictions limiting future use of their land to agriculture. Nearly 10,000 acres in the rapidly developing county have been preserved in this way. Typically, the payments to farmers come from state Green Acres bond issues.

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Bond Terms Trading "One, the delays in the program. Second, the financial pressure the developers are putting in front of these farmers is great," Sweeney said.

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Trading Stock And Bonds Meanwhile, state farmland preservation officials are overwhelmed with work, Yates said. "They've taken on too much that was the counties' responsibilities," he said.

Bond Investing Municipal A spokeswoman for the state farmland preservation program said the pace of processing applications often depends "on how complete and accurate the information is we get from the counties." The state "had some back and forth" with outstanding applications from Gloucester County and awaits a response on most of them, said the spokeswoman, Hope Gruzlovic.

Basis Bond Finance Hill Gruzlovic said counties are encouraged to preserve farms with their own funds and be reimbursed by the state when land is under development pressure. Burlington and Cape May counties have done so, she said. Harrison Mayor Charles Visalli, a township farmer, said delays in the preservation program discourage some farm owners, and the bond issue "is welcome news."

Bond Explained Terms Trading But Visalli, a Republican freeholder candidate challenging Sweeney this year, questioned the timing of the announcement just eight weeks before the election. The problem "has been ongoing for the last 18 months," Visalli said.

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Bond Houston Houston Sweeney, who is also a state senator, said he'll push for " major changes" in the state farmland preservation program. " We really feel it is not farmer-friendly" he said.

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Courier-Post - 9/4/2002

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