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ASSEMBLY APPROVES KARROW LEGISLATION PROTECTING FARMERS’ RIGHT TO SELL FIREWOOD
By Greg VolpeASSEMBLY APPROVES KARROW LEGISLATION PROTECTING FARMERS’ RIGHT TO SELL FIREWOOD
LEGISLATION WOULD SPECIFY THAT FARMERS CAN SUPPLEMENT THEIR INCOME BY SELLING FIREWOOD EVEN IF IT COMES FROM ANOTHER SITE
The Assembly unanimously approved legislation today sponsored by Assemblywoman Marcia Karrow that would clarify the state’s farming law so that a farm selling firewood could no longer be considered an industrial lumberyard.
“Farming has evolved and farmers have had to expand their sources of income,” Karrow, R-Hunterdon and Warren, said. “We cannot punish farmers for selling firewood on their farms whether that wood was grown on their own farm or at another location.”
The legislation, A-609, was prompted by a Mount Olive farmer who received a zoning violation for selling wood obtained off-site. His family had been doing so for decades, but the town’s zoning officer deemed it a logging operation and lumberyard.
“If our laws can be read so that a family farm can be interpreted into a lumberyard, we must correct them,” Karrow said. “Our hard-working farmers should not have to worry about getting a ticket for selling agriculture on their farms.”
The bill passed 78-0, and now heads to the Senate for consideration.
Karrow, who is to be sworn into the Senate Monday filling the former seat of U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance, R-Clinton, said she plans to continue pushing the measure as a senator.
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