1. A comprehensive plan to preserve agricultural land should be developed and implemented via the County's General Plan and Development Code. Possible implementation measures include ranking the most valuable or threatened agricultural resource. (from July/2004 doc)
2. The following should be used to identify the land to be preserved:
1. Establishment of a consistent definition for "prime" agriculture land;
2. Determination of the availability, quality and cost of getting water to the land;
3. Irrigated soils through Class III;
4. Potential agricultural economic value of the land;
5. Local input.
3. Agricultural land should be preserved in parcels as large as possible and smaller parcels should be reunified when feasible.
4. Broad state guidelines and policies should be established to identify agricultural lands and their preservation. Implementation and enforcement of land use policies should take place on the local level.
5. LAFCO should play a greater or more responsible role in the determination of where and when it is timely for agricultural lands to be developed. They should evaluate and weigh the necessity for agricultural land conversion in both sphere of influence as well as annexation requests. They should also consider and evaluate the need and importance of existing or future community greenbelts or community separators in determining annexation proposals.

Agricultural Policy: The LWVUS believes that federal agriculture policies should promote adequate supplies of food and fiber at reasonable prices to consumers and support economically viable farms, environmentally sound farm practices and increased reliance on the free market to determine prices.

Agricultural Policy (Position in Brief): adopted in 1983 + Support policies that recognize agricultural land as a limited resource which must be preserved for the economic and physical well-being of California and the nation. Appropriate agricultural land should be identified and its long-term protection should be based on regulatory and incentive programs which include comprehensive planning, zoning measures and other preservation techniques. State policy which affects agriculture should ensure the conservation of soil and water resources through incentives coupled with penalties for noncompliance.

• Appropriate land should be identified and held for agriculture
• The identification of agricultural land should be based on criteria which include an available water supply, the best combination of physical and chemical characteristics, and soil factors, and the threat of urbanization
• Techniques for preserving agricultural land should include tax relief, tax incentives, and "less-than-free" purchase of development interest in farmland.