Include all activities conducted on a farm necessary to the operation
of a farm and shall mean any activity, including the cultivation of land,
the raising of crops, the raising of livestock, dairy, poultry, stables and
horse-boarding facilities, horticulture, timber and fur-bearing animals; the
production, whether for sale to others or home use or consumption, of plants
and animals, fruit, vegetable and field crops; plantations, orchards, nurseries,
greenhouses or other similar agricultural practices used primarily for the
raising, marketing or sales of on-premises produced agricultural or horticultural
commodities. Further, agricultural practices shall include any activity now
permitted by law, engaged in, by or on behalf of a farmer in connection with
and in furtherance of the business of agriculture or farming and shall include,
without limitation, the collection, transportation, distribution and storage
of animal and poultry waste; storage, transportation and use of equipment
for tillage, planting, harvesting and marketing; transportation, storage and
use of legally permitted fertilizers and limes, insecticides, herbicides and
fungicides, all in accordance with local, state and federal law and in accordance
with the manufacturer's instructions and warnings; construction of farm structures
and facilities as permitted by local and state building code regulation; construction
and maintenance of fences and other enclosures; and the use and/or maintenance
of related pastures, idle or fallow land, woodland, wetland, farm ponds, farm
roads and certain farm buildings and other structures related to the agriculture
practices.