Zoning Dictionary

Category: Agricultural/Rural

Farm, Specialized

Any land on which the predominant economic activity consists of raising chickens, turkeys, or other fowl, the raising of fur bearing animals, the raising of swine, goats, horses or cattle on feed lots, the raising or boarding of dogs or cats or the growing of mushrooms.

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Farmer

A person whose principal occupation and source of income is farming.

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Farming

The production of plants and animals useful to man, including the breeding, raising or maintaining of livestock, fur farming, fruit growing, the keeping of bees, fish farming, greenhouse farming, hydroponics farming, vegetable growing, tree growing and sod farming.

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Feeding Pen, Accessory

An area used for feeding of livestock as an accessory use only to farming activities.

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Feedlot

Any tract of land or structure, pen or corral, wherein cattle, horses, sheep, goats and swine are maintained in close quarters for the purpose of fattening such livestock for final shipment to market. A confined land area for fattening cattle or other animals or temporarily holding such animals for shipping.

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Food Security

Access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. Food security includes at a minimum the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods and an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.

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Forestry Use

The general raising and harvesting of wood and without limiting the generality of the foregoing shall include the raising and cutting of fuel wood, pulp, wood, lumber, Christmas trees and other products.

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Free-Range Poultry Farming

Places where poultry are housed in either stationary, permanent or moveable structures or buildings, which enable them to have access to the outdoors.

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Genetically Modified Organism

Unless expressly provided otherwise by regulations, any organism in which any of the genes or other genetic material: have been modified by in vitro techniques; or are inherited or otherwise derived, through any number of replications, from any genes or other genetic material which has been modified by in vitro techniques. This does not apply […]

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Grain Storage Structure

Any structure which is designed to store any type of grain.

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