As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Comprised of local farmers and members of the farming industry
(not to exceed five), a member of the Hamburg Planning Board, one
representative from the Erie County Farm Bureau and a Town Board liaison,
as designated by the Town Board, for the purpose of providing guidance
on agricultural issues and land use policies impacting farms, and
to minimize, mediate and resolve conflicts between farmers and non-farm
neighbors.
AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES
All activities conducted by a farmer on a farm to produce
agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the
operation of a farm and on-farm production, processing, and marketing
of agricultural products, including, but not limited to, the collection,
transportation, distribution, storage, and land application of animal
wastes; storage, transportation, and use of equipment for tillage,
planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization, and government-certified
pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers,
limes and pesticides, all in accordance with local, state and federal
law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers' instructions
and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs;
construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage
of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural
products and livestock, for the sale of agricultural products, and
for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building
code and regulations, including the construction and maintenance of
fences.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
Those products as defined in § 301, Subdivision
2, of Article 25-AA of the Agricultural and Markets Law.
FARM
The land, buildings, farm residential buildings, and machinery
used in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural
products.
FARMER
Any person, organization, entity, association, partnership,
or corporation engaged in the business of agriculture, for profit
or otherwise, including the cultivation of land; the raising of crops;
the raising of livestock, poultry, fur-bearing animals, or fish; the
harvesting of timber; or the practicing of horticulture or apiculture.
GENERALLY ACCEPTED AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES
Those practices which are feasible, lawful, inherent, customary,
necessary, reasonable, normal, safe and typical to the industry or
unique to the commodity as they pertain to the practices listed in
the definition of "agricultural practices."