TRENTON — New county farmers will have an opportunity to participate in the state Department of Agriculture 2007 Deer Fencing program, a cost-share program that provides fencing material and up to 30 percent of the line posts to qualified farmers.
The program, run cooperatively by the Department and Rutgers Cooperative Extension, has expanded eligibility to new and emerging operations that could benefit from the exclusionary fencing.
The new/beginning farmer category is only eligible to farms established from 2000 through the present day, which meet an economic threshold. This is the third year of the Department’s deer fencing program.
In the first two years, fence, accompanying wire and posts were distributed to 150 farmers throughout the state.
Applications for deer fencing are available to farmers through the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Districts and Rutgers Extension offices.
Farmers also may call (609) 292-5532 for more information or go to the state’s Web site deer fencing page at www.nj.gov/agriculture/grants/deer.html.
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