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The Farmland Protection Policy Act  The Farmland Protection Policy Act was put into place after a National Agricultural Land Study that took place between 1980-1981 discovered that many acres of farmland in the USA were being converted each year. A  1981 Congressional Report stated that Congress needed to create and enforce laws that protected farmland and they f  ound that most of the problem lied in the Federal Government. Therefore, they <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">passed the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 in which contained the Farmland Protection Policy Act. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">This Act was created in an attempt to minimize the Federal programs that convert farmland to nonagricultural uses that are unnecessary. I <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">n order to carry this out, federal agencies have to compare and change there policies with the Act every two years. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">The farmland refers to prime farmland, unique farmland, and land of statewide or local importance (Molleur 2008).

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