Agenda - 05-21-2002 - 5c; VAD - Bacon

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a is ,�" ,t� �r�7�ar+o4d�5pUf2e,�ddnNSan "s^ f r MEMORANDUM To: Brent Bogue, District Conservationist John SmIN-�T.a�x Supervisor From: 1-i Moon,rand Use/Preservation Planner Date: February 14, 2082 Subject: Bacon Family Limited Partnership Application Nor Certification as Qualifying Famnland Please find attached the application of Donald N. Johnson and Mary G. Bacon of the Bacon Family❑mited Partnership for Certfication as Qualifying Farmland. Mr. Johnson submitted the form as part of the application process for the County's Voluntary AgdalWral District Program. The property is listed for present-use taxation program but does not have a plan on file with the Natural Resources Conservation Serves or North Carolina Forest Service. To secure such certification, a tract must: 1. Be Participating In the present use-value taxation program established by the NC General Statutes, Sections 105-277.2 through 105-277,7, or is otherwise determined by fire County to meet all the qualifications of this program set forth In the NC General Statutes, Section 105-27].3. [FCSponse to bw provldM by Tar Supervisor] 2.. Be Fail by the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (NRCS) as being a farm on which at least two-thirds of the land is composed of solls that a. Are best suited for providing food, seed,fiber, forage, timber, and oil seed crops; b. Have good soll quallUes; C. Are favorable for all major crops common to Orange County; d. Have a favorabe growing season; and e. Receive the available moisture needed to produce high yields for an average of eight(8)out of ten (10)years; OR be one on which at least two-thirds of the land has been actively used for agricultural, horticultural or forestry operations as defined in the NC General Statutes,