Saving Family Farms

The project has specifically chosen an agricultural application in the hopes that some of this information may be used by operating farms as a means to create additional on-farm income or that it may encourage others to enter farming. Approximately 450 farms per year go out of business in New York State due to high energy costs and economic failure (6). With no remaining income, many farms fall prey to land developers, resulting in the loss of irreplaceable farmland forever.