As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES
Those practices which are feasible, lawful, inherent, necessary,
reasonable, normal, safe, and typical to the industry or unique to
the products as they pertain to the on-farm production, processing
and marketing of agricultural products. Examples of such practices
include, but are not limited to, operation of farm equipment, proper
use of agricultural chemicals and other crop protection methods, manure
application, composting and construction and use of farm structures,
fences and roadside stands.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
Include, but are not limited to, the following:
A.
Field crops, including corn, wheat, rye, barley, hay, potatoes,
and dry beans.
B.
Fruits, including apples, peaches, grapes, cherries and berries.
C.
Vegetables, including tomatoes, snap beans, cabbage, carrots,
beets and onions.
D.
Horticultural specialties, including nursery stock, ornamental
shrubs, ornamental trees and flowers.
E.
Livestock and livestock products, including cattle, sheep, hogs,
goats, equids (e.g., horses, donkeys), poultry, camelids (e.g., llamas,
alpacas), ratites (e.g., ostriches, emus), farmed deer or buffalo,
fur-bearing animals, wool-bearing animals, milk, cheese, eggs and
furs.
F.
Apiary (beekeeping) operations.
G.
Woodland products, including maple sap, logs, lumber, posts
and firewood.
H.
Christmas trees derived from a managed Christmas tree operation,
whether dug for transplanting or cut from the stump.
I.
Aquaculture products, including fish, fish products, water plants
and shellfish.
J.
Woody biomass, that is, short rotation woody crops raised for
bioenergy, but not including farm woodland.
K.
Horse boarding operations.
AGRICULTURE TOURISM
Agriculturally related accessory uses, that are subordinate
to the growing of crops or the raising of livestock, designed to bring
the public to the farm on a temporary or continuous basis, such as
U-pick farm sales, retail sales of farm products, farm mazes, pumpkin
patches, farm animal viewing and petting, wagon rides, farmland and
facility tours, horticulture nurseries and associated display gardens,
cider pressing, classes or workshops or wine or cheese tasting.
FARM
Land, farm buildings and equipment used for the production,
preparation and marketing of agricultural products such as livestock,
dairy, equine, poultry, fur-bearing animal, aquaculture, apiculture,
fruit, vegetable and field crop farms, plantations, orchards, nurseries,
greenhouses or other similar operations used primarily for the raising
of agricultural or horticultural products or commercial boarding operations.
FARM DIRECT MARKETING
A use that shall be considered ancillary to farms including
the sale of agricultural products by farmers directly to consumers
at farm stands, roadside stands and farmers' markets.
FARMER
Any person, organization, entity, association, partnership,
limited-liability corporation or corporation engaged in agricultural
practices, for profit or otherwise.
In order to promote harmony between farmers and their neighbors,
the Town shall include the following notice in the information packet
given to all persons making application for building permits or appearing
before the Town Planning Board, the Zoning Board of Appeals, or the
Town Board for a planned development district: "It is the policy of
this community to conserve, protect and encourage the development
and improvement of agricultural land for the production of food and
other agricultural products or services and also for its natural and
ecological value. This notice is to inform applicants that farming
activities occur within the Town of Malta. Such farming activities
may include, but not be limited to, activities that cause noise, dust,
smoke and odors."