State Preserves Area Farm

Pennsylvania’s Agricultural Land Preservation Board on Dec. 12 announced that it had added the Lillie M. Negley Farm, a 160-acre crop farm in Huston Township, to the 2,763 additional acres on 30 farms in 16 counties preserved through the state’s farmland preservation program.

The state board, in partnership with county boards, ended the year by preserving 210 farms, 17,817 acres, the highest number of farms in a decade.

The 30 farms preserved today are in Adams, Blair, Bradford, Bucks, Butler, Chester, Dauphin, Erie, Lancaster, Lehigh, Northampton, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Washington, Westm...