Agriculture Lands Assessment: Overall Assessment

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100 Miles

Overall Assessment Score

• Tier I
• Tier II
• Tier III
• Tier IV
• Tier V

This assessment is comprised of three evaluations:

• Government Policy: Aims to award points to parcels in areas with government policies supporting the conservation of working farmland.
• Agribusiness Infrastructure: Aims to award points to parcels in areas that have a strong agricultural business infrastructure.
• Soils: Aims to award points to parcels with high quality soils.

Additive Approach: Points for the three evaluations are summed to obtain the overall assessment score. Results are grouped into tiers based on Jenks natural breaks. For the overall assessment score, parcels in Tier I are considered to be the highest priority for conservation of working farmland. Within the individual assessments, parcels in Tier I represent the parcels that scored the best for each assessment alone.

NOTICE

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information, but errors and conditions originating from physical sources used to develop the database may be reflected in the data supplied. The requester must be aware of data conditions and ultimately bear responsibility for the appropriate use of the information with respect to possible errors, original map scale, collection methodology, currency of data, and other conditions specific to certain data. Projection: NC State Plane Feet NAD 83. Date: January 2013.