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Survey shows Md. rural landowners want land kept
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Most
rural landowners in Maryland
strongly agree foreign ownership
of land in this coutry should be
restricted, believe that landowners
should be able to do whatever they
wish with their land short of
harming the environment, and say
they have a “moral obligation” to
conserve rural land for future
generations.
Those are just some of the
results of an extensive survey of
rural landowners and their at
titudes in Maryland that also
shows a “typical” rural landowner
most likely was born and raised on
a farm, is married, between the
ages of 46 and 65, and retired.
The survey, part of a larger five-
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1111 Narroc Road, Mechanics burg, PA 17055
year study of land use and land-use
policies in Maryland, was designed
by University of Maryland
agricultural economists to provide
state policy makers with basic
planning information.
“State policymakers are looking
for basic planning information as
they come to grips with some land
use* issues as farmland preser
vation, land speculation, taxation
and the environment,” said Billy
V. Lessley, professor and research
economist for the University’s
Agricultural Experiment Station.
Lessley said the survey of five
representative Maryland counties
offers some of that basic planning
information.
The five counties Dorchester,
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Other issues most rural lan
downers in Maryland agreed upon
included giving farmland
preferential tax treatment to keep
the land in active agricultural
production, Bliven said.
Most respondents to the survey
also agreed high-quality farmland
in Maryland should be preserved
by public policy for agricultural
use, he said.
But while rural landowners
across the state agreed to a large
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Allegany, Garrett, Harford and
Howard were selected, ac
cording to research assistant Neal
Bliven, because they represented
four major categories of
population growth and density in
the state.
NCGA Convention Aug. 1-3
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The 24th Annual
Convention of the
National Corn Growers
Association will be held
at the Veterans
Memorial Auditorium in
Des Moines, lowa, on
August 1-3, 1982. In
addition to a normal
schedule of business
meetings of the NCGA
Board of Directors and
a general meeting of the
NCGA delegates, the
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degree on these issues, other issues
brought a variety of responses,
according to Bliven and Lessley.
Asked if profits from rural land
speculation in Maryland should be
taxed at higher than the present
rate, a large number of survey
respondents said “no” or
remained neutral, Lessley said.
Opinion also was mixed on issues
such as restricting development in
the state to land that is not well
suited to agricultural production,
he said, and the perceived need for
zoning in rural areas.
When asked about governmental
regulation of local land use,
however, significant numbers of
respondents in the survey said they
“don’t know” if there is too much.
Convention will
highlight the following
developments:
—National winners of
the 1981 Com Yield
Contest at an awards
ceremony;
-A comprehensive
trade show featunng the
newest agricultural
equipment and ser
vices;
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“as it is”
too little or sufficient control,
Lesaley said, while a nearly equal
number said there was too much.
The study also showed more than
half of all rural land in the survey
is titled in both a husband’s and
wife’s names, ranges in size from
five to 59 acres and, with the ex
ceptions of Allegany and Garrett
counties, is in active agricultural
use.
In those two counties, however,
just under half of all survey
respondents’ parcels were in ac
tive agricultural use, Biiven and
Lessley said, and a large majority
in all five counties ranging from
68-96 percent said they foresaw
no change in the future in how they
will use their land.
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