Taxpayers for two decades have paid millions of dollars to preserve farms — nowhere more than in Lancaster County, the nation's leader in farmland saved from development. The rich farmland is preserved forever. In perpetuity. Or is it? Most don't know that farmers &mdash......

Lancaster County is a national role model in farmland preservation and a leader in agriculture. That lofty praise was delivered to more than 150 county residents and civic leaders by Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff on Tuesday, during an address sponsored by Lancast......

When Caroline Novak started consulting for the Lancaster Farmland Trust in 2004, she made some bold statements. The nonprofit farmland preservation group and the county's Agricultural Preserve Board could double the number of acres they save from development each year, she predicted. M......