Farms are disappearing everywhere

NJ isn't the only place where farmland is being gobbled up by development. Farmers in Kentucky are watching the encroachment happen too:

John Lacy looked up from raking hay and saw a gray cloud in the distance. Rain is coming, he thought.

But as he moved toward the edge of his 142-acre farm, he realized it wasn't a storm, but dust billowing from construction.

It is interesting to hear how difficult it has been for Scott County to get a PDR Farmland Preservation program started up. We take our farms and our PDR programs for granted here, since they've been around for quite a while.