N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 151-n: Climate resilient farming initiative

§ 151-n. Climate resilient farming initiative. 1. The department, in

cooperation with the state soil and water conservation committee, and

other partners working on climate resilient farming shall encourage

agricultural producers in urban, suburban and rural communities to

reduce the effects of farming on climate change, such as greenhouse gas

emissions, and adapt to and mitigate the impact of climate change by

improving and maintaining water management systems and soil health and

resiliency.

2. The department shall promote best management practices for climate

mitigation and soil resiliency, as informed by state policy, by the

United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation

Service Field Office Technical Guide and by research conducted by New

York state institutions of higher education with expertise in soil

health, and approved by the New York state soil and water conservation

committee.

3. The department shall coordinate the climate resilient farming

initiative with the agricultural environmental management program

established in article eleven-A of this chapter and section eleven of

the soil and water conservation districts law.

4. The commissioner and the state soil and water conservation

committee are each empowered to promulgate such rules and regulations

and to prescribe such forms as each shall deem necessary to effectuate

the purpose of this section.