RURAL RESEARCHEric D. Graham, who is a graduate of Winston-Salem State University, several months ago, participated in Auburn University's Agriculture Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Research Study entitled "Right-to-Farm Laws and Rural Sovereignty", which is conducted by Loka Ashwood, the Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, who is attempting to understand how right-to-farm laws function in the state of North Carolina.
The data collected from this ...research will be published in a professional journal and/or book and/ or presented at a professional meeting. Right to farm laws in the United States deny nuisance lawsuits against farmers who use accepted and standard farming practices and have been in prior operation even if these practices harm or bother adjacent property owners or the general public.
Agricultural nuisances may include noise, odors, visual clutter and dangerous structures. All 50 states have some form of Right to Farm law.
Many of these laws were passed after 1980 because of the reduction of available farmland, adversity from private and public nuisance actions, which hinder the prospect of farming.
The laws are aimed to minimize the threat to normal farming practices from nuisance litigation and prohibitive state and local government regulation. In contrast to typical farmland preservation policies, which aim to preserve farmland itself, Right to Farm laws attempt to preserve the agricultural practices and enhance farm viability. www.auburn.edu (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)
