The committee works to preserve farms by buying some that are on the market and reselling them with a deed permanently preserving the land for agriculture.

"We want green acres and we want to have farms preserved, but if we can't control the deer numbers then we can't preserve farms."

If New Jersey voters want to approve new taxes to preserve farms and parkland, they will have plenty of chances to do so on Nov. 3.

Both books make it clear that the sweet logic of the 55-year-old policies designed to preserve productive small farms has soured.

On a more general level, DSA is a response to concerns about the urbanization of agricultural land and an attempt to preserve existing farms.

But the effort to preserve farms doesn't mean just preventing pretty fields of moo cows from giving way to tract houses.

Robert Kozakewicz, the town supervisor, said the overhead lines and poles would be aesthetically jarring and contrary to town efforts to preserve and protect farms.

Other initiatives included multimillion-dollar programs to preserve farms, buy undeveloped land and protect groundwater.

Nassau is mostly built up now, and Suffolk officials have been racing with developers to preserve farms, wetlands, the Pine Barrens and other open space.

Still, it adds that viewers can help to preserve farms by joining associations like the American Farmland Trust, in Washington.