The right to farm all land is hereby recognized to exist as a natural right and is also hereby ordained to exist as a permitted use everywhere in the Township of Plumsted subject only to size requirements and to Township health and sanitary codes. The right to farm as it is used in this section includes the use of irrigation pumps and equipment, aerial and ground seeding and spraying, tractors, farm laborers, and the application of chemical fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides as well as other mechanized equipment and modern procedures; all for the purpose of producing from the land agricultural products such as vegetables, grains, hay, fruits, fibers, wood, trees, plants, shrubs, flowers and seeds, as well as the propagation and maintenance of horses, cows and other grazing stock.
In accordance with the purposes and preambles set forth herein, the following farming activities shall be deemed established as acceptable, recognized, and entitled to encouragement and protection as the collective embodiment of the right to farm, subject to all cases, however, to any supervening applicable federal, state and county laws or regulating the public health, safety or otherwise:
A. 
Produce agricultural and horticultural crops. Trees and forest products, livestock, poultry and other related commodities.
B. 
Provide for the wholesale and retail marketing, including "U-Pick" marketing and sales of the agricultural output of the commercial farm and related products that contribute to farm income, including the construction of building and parking areas in conformance with applicable municipal standards.
C. 
Replenish soil nutrients, including, but not limited to, the spreading of manure and applying chemical and organic fertilizers.
D. 
Use federally-approved products in accordance with labeled instructions as recommended by the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the control of pests, predators, varmints, disease affecting plants and livestock, and for the control of weed infestation.
E. 
Clear woodlands using open burning and other accepted techniques and install and maintain vegetative and terrain alterations and other physical facilities for water and soil conservation and surface water control in wetland areas.
F. 
Use irrigation pumps and equipment and undertake aerial and ground seeding and spraying using tractors and other necessary equipment.
G. 
Hire and utilize necessary farm labor.
H. 
Construct fences.
I. 
Transport large, slow-moving equipment over roads within the Township.
J. 
Conduct farming activities on holidays and Sundays as well as weekdays, in the evening and during the day, notwithstanding the production thereby of normal but unavoidable noise, dust, odors and fumes caused by such necessary activities when conducted in accordance with recognized practices.
For the purpose of giving due notice of nearby farming uses to proposed new residential areas adjacent to unimproved land then being commercially farmed or suitable therefor, the Planning Board shall require an applicant for an adjacent major or minor subdivision, as a condition of approval of such application, to include a provision in each and every contract for and deed conveying all or any portion of the lands thereby subdivided, as well as on filed final subdivision maps, the following record notice to and waiver by grantees of such present or future proximate farming uses, which such provision shall be made to run with the land:
"Grantee hereby acknowledges notice that there are presently or may in the future be farm uses adjacent or in close proximity to the above described premises from which may emanate noise, ordinances, and, by acceptance of this conveyance, Grantee does hereby waive objection to such activities."
For the purposes of interpretation of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
FARM
An area of land of single or multiple contiguous or non-contiguous parcels which is actively devoted to agricultural or horticultural use, including, but not limited to, crop land, pasture, idle or fallow land, woodland, wetlands, farm ponds, farm roads and certain farm buildings and other enclosures related to agricultural pursuits.
COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE
The production principally for sale to others of plants and animals or their products, including, but not limited to, forage and sod crops, grain and feed crops, dairy animals and dairy products, livestock, including beef cattle, poultry, sheep, swine, horses, ponies, mules and goats; the breeding and grazing of such animals, bees and apiary products, fruits of all kinds, including grapes, nuts and berries, vegetables, nursery, floral, ornamental and greenhouse products.
HOME AGRICULTURE
The production principally for home use or consumption of plants, animals or their products and for sale to others where such sales are incidental, including, but not limited to, gardening, fruit production, and poultry and livestock products for household use only.