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3) Owners of the Bracken Brae Farm, Claude Hughes and Linda Sakiewicz, have submitted an <br /> application to enroll four (4) parcels of land totaling 105.9 acres as qualifying farmland for the <br /> Voluntary Agricultural District (VAD) program in the Cane Creek/Buckhorn District. The farm <br /> operation includes vegetables, herbs, fruit crops and managed woodland. The Hughes <br /> /Sakiewicz Farm have been evaluated against each of the VAD certification requirement <br /> standards and meets or exceeds all of the measures above. <br /> 4) Owners of Spring Crest Farm, Kim and Chad Woods, have submitted an application to <br /> update ownership of existing acres in the VAD program and enroll two (2) parcels of land <br /> totaling of 15.06 acres as qualifying farmland for the Voluntary Agricultural District (VAD) <br /> program located in the Caldwell Agricultural District. The farm includes pasture, hay crops and <br /> managed woodland. The additional acres are adjacent to the existing VAD farm, and will <br /> increase the total farm acres to 98.62 acres. The farm has been evaluated against each of the <br /> VAD certification requirement standards and meets or exceeds all of the measures above. <br /> 5) Owners of the Parker Farm, Carlton, Barbara, Shane, Carley, and Sarah Parker, have <br /> submitted an application to enroll five (5) parcel of land totaling 298.24 acres as qualifying <br /> farmland for the Voluntary Agricultural District (VAD) program in the Caldwell Agricultural <br /> District. The farm operation includes a beef cattle operation, pastures, hay crops and managed <br /> woodland. The Parker Farm has been evaluated against each of the VAD certification <br /> requirement standards and meets or exceeds all of the measures above. <br /> 6) Owners Susan Gray and Tommy Warren have submitted an application to enroll one (1) <br /> parcel of land totaling 53.01 acres as qualifying farmland for the Voluntary Agricultural District <br /> (VAD) program in the Caldwell Agricultural District. The farm operation includes a beef cattle <br /> operation, pastures, hay crops and managed woodland. The Gray/Warren farm has been <br /> evaluated against each of the VAD certification requirement standards and meets or exceeds all <br /> of the measures above. <br /> 7) Owners of the Milton A. Latta & Sons Dairy Farm Inc., William and Tate Latta, have submitted <br /> an application to enroll five (5) parcels of land totaling 622.30 acres as qualifying farmland — <br /> 363.59 acres for the Voluntary Agricultural District(VAD) program and 258.71 acres for the <br /> Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural District program (EVAD) in the Schley/Eno Agricultural District. <br /> The farm operation includes a dairy cattle operation, pastures, hay, grain, corn crops and <br /> managed woodland. The Latta Farm has been evaluated against each of the VAD and EVAD <br /> certification requirement standards and meets or exceeds all of the measures above. <br /> 8) The owner of the Irvin Farm Nature Preserve, the Triangle Land Conservancy, has submitted <br /> an application to enroll three (3) parcels of land totaling 261.27 acres as qualifying farmland for <br /> the Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural District (EVAD) program in the White Cross Agricultural <br /> District. The farm operation includes traditional and Asian fruits and vegetables, wildlife habitat <br /> and managed woodland. The Irvin Farm has been evaluated against each of the EVAD <br /> certification requirement standards and meets or exceeds all of the measures above. <br /> 9) Owners of the Atwater Farm, Donald and Warren Atwater, have submitted an application to <br /> enroll four (4) parcels of land totaling 116.25 acres as qualifying farmland for the Voluntary <br /> Agricultural District (VAD) program in the White Cross Agricultural District. The farm operation <br /> includes a hay crops and managed woodland. The Atwater farm has been evaluated against <br /> each of the VAD certification requirement standards and meets or exceeds all of the measures <br /> above. <br />