As used in this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
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
the 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 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 codes and regulations, including the construction
and maintenance of fences.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
Those products as defined in § 301(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, or 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."
RESOLUTION COMMITTEE
Shall be made up of the Chairman of the Conservation Board or designee,
Chairman of the Agricultural Committee or designee, and a member of one other
standing committee of the Town designated by the Town Supervisor.