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26. Prepare studies to examine the long -term financial benefit to farmers of participating in a <br />purchase of development rights program <br />Authorize New Tools to Help Protect Farm Communities <br />27. Provide explicit state authorization for local governments to develop a transfer of development <br />rights program where there is support for such a measure in the local agricultural community <br />28. Provide state authorization for local governments to establish agricultural protection standards <br />in areas where there is support for such a measure in the local agricultural community <br />Enhance the Use Value Program <br />29. Strengthen support for thq use value program through conducting Cost of Community Services <br />studies and other means <br />30. Expand the use value program to include lands covered by a certified conservation plan <br />31. Enable counties to reduce the minimum parcel size needed to enroll in the use value program <br />Help Farmers Address Common Concerns <br />32. Provide assistance to help farmers comply more easily with local, state, and federal regulations <br />33. Provide information about the components of different farm protection programs and the <br />experiences that farmers have had with them <br />Provide Financial Planning Assistance to Farmers <br />34. Provide financial planning assistance <br />35. Provide conservation design assistance <br />Help Existing Farmers Continue Farming and New Farmers Get Started <br />36. Develop a land link program to connect new farmers with experienced ones <br />37. Help existing farmers find additional land to cultivate <br />3 <br />