The Farmland Preservation Board this week announced the preservation of 6,854 more acres of farmland on 69 farms.

The farms were located in Adams, Beaver, Berks, Butler, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Erie, Franklin, Juniata, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mercer, Northumberland, Potter, Schuylkill, Snyder, Union, Wayne and York counties.

The Pennsylvania Agricultural Conservation Easement Purchase Program was developed 18 years ago to help slow the loss of prime farmland to non-agricultural uses. The program enables state, county and local governments to purchase conservation easements (also called development rights) from owners of quality farmland.

For more information, visit the Farmland Preservation webpage.

12/15/2006