Bill Text: NY S03693 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Defines the term "land used in silvopasturing" to mean the intentional combination of trees, forages and livestock managed as a single integrated practice for the collective benefit of each, including the planting of appropriate grasses and legume forages among trees for sound grazing and livestock husbandry.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2014-12-29 - SIGNED CHAP.547 [S03693 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S03693-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3693
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 11, 2013
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       Introduced  by Sens. RITCHIE, VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed,
         and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
       AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
         definition of land used in silvopasturing
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets
    2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph m to read as follows:
    3    M.  LAND USED IN SILVOPASTURING SHALL BE LIMITED TO UP TO  TEN  FENCED
    4  ACRES PER LARGE LIVESTOCK, INCLUDING CATTLE, HORSES AND CAMELIDS, AND UP
    5  TO FIVE FENCED ACRES PER SMALL LIVESTOCK, SUCH AS SHEEP, HOGS, GOATS AND
    6  POULTRY.    FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "SILVOPASTURING" SHALL
    7  MEAN THE INTENTIONAL COMBINATION OF TREES, FORAGES AND LIVESTOCK MANAGED
    8  AS A SINGLE INTEGRATED PRACTICE FOR  THE  COLLECTIVE  BENEFIT  OF  EACH,
    9  INCLUDING  THE  PLANTING OF APPROPRIATE GRASSES AND LEGUME FORAGES AMONG
   10  TREES FOR SOUND GRAZING AND LIVESTOCK HUSBANDRY.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
   12  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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