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2 <br /> program at the March and May 2019 meetings. All farm applications were reviewed and verified <br /> to have met or exceeded the minimum criteria for certification into the program. <br /> The Agricultural Preservation Board voted unanimously to recommend approval of the <br /> certification for six (6) farms and their inclusion in the Voluntary and/or the Enhanced Voluntary <br /> Agricultural District program. The certification documentation is on file in the DEAPR/Soil and <br /> Water Conservation District office. The farms are described briefly below: <br /> Brief Farm Descriptions: <br /> 1) Owners, Lynn and Teresa Holloway, and Alene Holloway, have submitted an application to <br /> enroll three (3) parcels of land totaling 122.05 acres as qualifying farmland for the Voluntary <br /> Agricultural District program (VAD) in the Cedar Grove Agricultural District. The farm <br /> operation includes tobacco, small grains, and managed woodland. The farm has been <br /> evaluated against each of the VAD certification requirement standards and meets or <br /> exceeds all of the measures above. <br /> 2) Owners, Howard and Karen McAdams (McAdams Farm), have submitted an application to <br /> enroll one (1) of parcel of land totaling 22.68 acres as qualifying farmland for the Voluntary <br /> Agricultural District (VAD) program in the High Rock/Efland Agricultural District. The farm <br /> operation includes livestock, pasture, and managed woodland. This acreage will be an <br /> addition to the existing farmland in the VAD program. The farm has been evaluated against <br /> each of the VAD certification requirement standards and meets or exceeds all of the <br /> measures above. <br /> 3) Owners, Claude Hughes and Linda Sakiewicz, have submitted an application to enroll one <br /> (1) parcel of land totaling of 2.56 acres as qualifying farmland for the Voluntary Agricultural <br /> District (VAD) program located in the Cane Creek/Buckhorn Agricultural District. The farm <br /> includes livestock and pasture, and will be an additional acreage to their existing farmland in <br /> the VAD program. The farm has been evaluated against each of the VAD certification <br /> requirement standards and meets or exceeds all of the measures above. <br /> 4) Owners, Susan Snipes Nichols and Karen Snipes Sexton, have submitted an application to <br /> enroll two (2) parcels of land totaling 268.33 acres as qualifying farmland for the Voluntary <br /> Agricultural District (VAD) program in the Cane Creek/Buckhorn Agricultural District. The <br /> farm operation includes corn, soybeans, small grains, hay crops, and managed woodland. <br /> The farm has been evaluated against each of the VAD certification requirement standards <br /> and meets or exceeds all of the measures above. <br /> 5) Owners, Virginia McKee and Heirs, have submitted an application to enroll one (1) parcel of <br /> land totaling of 162.28 acres as qualifying farmland for the Voluntary Agricultural District <br /> (VAD) program located in the Caldwell Agricultural District. The farm includes livestock, <br /> pasture, hay crops, soybeans, small grains, and managed woodland. The farm has been <br /> evaluated against each of the VAD certification requirement standards and meets or <br /> exceeds all of the measures above. <br /> 6) Owner, Mark Miller, has submitted an application to enroll five (5) parcels of land totaling <br /> 177.74 acres as qualifying farmland for the Voluntary Agricultural District (VAD) program in <br /> the Caldwell Agricultural District. The farm operation includes livestock, pasture, hay crops, <br />