{"id":95501,"date":"2018-07-02T18:41:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T22:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=95501"},"modified":"2018-07-02T10:46:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T14:46:52","slug":"town-of-hamilton-passes-right-to-farm-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=95501","title":{"rendered":"Town of Hamilton passes Right-to-Farm Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-67551\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tractor-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tractor-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tractor-150x83.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tractor-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tractor-900x498.jpg 900w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tractor-400x221.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tractor.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Town of Hamilton passes right-to-farm law<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At its June town council meeting, after having held a public hearing, the Hamilton Town Council\u00a0 unanimously passed a right-to-farm law. The law was drafted by the Zoning Update Committee and was originally prompted by requests from the community and as\u00a0suggested in the town comprehensive plan.<\/p>\n<p>The law was filed with the state Department of State June 19, 2018, and officially\u00a0became part of Hamilton Town Zoning Law. A right to farm law reminds residents that\u00a0farming is valued in the town and that agricultural practices are accepted as a key\u00a0component of farming.<\/p>\n<p>A copy of this new law is posted on the town website, and road\u00a0signs will be posted around town as a reminder that Hamilton supports its farmers.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit TownofHamiltonNY.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town of Hamilton passes right-to-farm law At its June town council meeting, after having held a public hearing, the Hamilton Town Council\u00a0 unanimously passed a right-to-farm law. The law was drafted by the Zoning Update Committee and was originally prompted by requests from the community and as\u00a0suggested in the town comprehensive plan. The law was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23679,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}