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.

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S3693-2013 Actions

• Mar 19, 2013: referred to agriculture
• Mar 19, 2013: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Mar 19, 2013: PASSED SENATE
• Mar 7, 2013: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• Mar 6, 2013: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• Mar 5, 2013: 1ST REPORT CAL.152
• Feb 11, 2013: REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE

S3693-2013 Meetings

Agriculture: Mar 5, 2013

S3693-2013 Calendars

Active List: Mar 12, 2013 , Active List: Mar 19, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Mar 6, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Mar 7, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Mar 11, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Mar 12, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Mar 13, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Mar 14, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Mar 18, 2013 , Floor Calendar: Mar 19, 2013

S3693-2013 Votes

S3693-2013 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    3693

                         2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                              February 11, 2013
                                 ___________

  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:


    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets
  law is amended by adding a new paragraph m to read as follows:

    M.  LAND USED IN SILVOPASTURING SHALL BE LIMITED TO UP TO  TEN  FENCED
  ACRES PER LARGE LIVESTOCK, INCLUDING CATTLE, HORSES AND CAMELIDS, AND UP
  TO FIVE FENCED ACRES PER SMALL LIVESTOCK, SUCH AS SHEEP, HOGS, GOATS AND
  POULTRY.    FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "SILVOPASTURING" SHALL
  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.
    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
  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.
                                                             LBD04929-01-3