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�i 0 far miand preservation ort Covering the policies, practices and initiatives that save farmland and open space Since 1990 • Deborah Bowers Editor Diverse group attends two -day event PACIFIC GROVE, CA - About 316 people attended a conference sponsored by the Ameri- can Farmland Trust, March 10 - 12, at the Asilomar Conference Grounds nestled among the dunes at the tip of the Monterey Peninsula. Attendees included not only program admin- istrators and professionals involved in farmland preservation, but elected officials and farmers and ranchers. Attendees had more than 30 workshops to choose from during the two and half day event, MARYLAND AT 25 -YEAR MARK as well as a number of keynote and plenary sessions in rustic style lodges and halls scattered throughout the wooded 107 -acre campus oper- ated by California State Parks. Keynote speakers included former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and Californian Richard Rominger, who gave an account of problems facing. California agriculture. His list included a budget crisis that threatens the continuation of reimbursements to counties for tax breaks to Continued on page 3 Buy -back, escape clauses vary by state ANNAPOLIS, MD - Two Maryland lawmakers submitted and then withdrew legislation that would have allowed counties to opt out of current regulations that allow landowners to buy back development rights that were sold 25 years ago to the Maryland Agricultural Lands Preser- vation Foundation. Under BB 826, counties would have been authorized to negotiate with landowners to delete a provision in MALPF easements that allows landowners'to seek permission to buy back development rights if the easement was settled at least 25 years ago. Under current law, landowners have to convince their local governing body that their land can no longer be farmed profitably. If ap- proved by the locality, the request would also Continued on page 2 Volume 13, Number 5 March 2003 Local farm viability program ......... ............................... 4 Like -Kind exchange, installment purchase detailed ..... 5 Riverboat casinos keep PDR program afloat ................ 6 Jobpostings ................................. ............................... 7 Farmland Preservation Report is published by Bowers Publishing, Inc. 10 times per year. Subscription rate of $205 includes index and hotline services. Editorial and circulation offices: 900 La Grange Rd., Street, Maryland 21154 • (410) 692 -2708 • bowerspub @hotmail.com • ISSN: 1050 -6373. @ 2003 by Bowers Publishing, Inc. Reproduction in any form, or electronic forwarding of this material without permission is prohibited.