New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 2 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 76 - STATE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Subchapter 2A - AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: GENERALLY ACCEPTED OPERATIONS AND PRACTICES
Section 2:76-2A.9 - Fencing installation agricultural management practice for wildlife control
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 2:76-2A.9
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) The installation of fencing on farmland for protection against wildlife damage shall be a generally accepted agricultural management practice recommended by the Committee.
1. The installation of fencing on farmland for
protection against wildlife damage shall be performed in accordance with the
following:
i. With respect to high-tensile woven
wire fencing, the Rutgers Cooperative Extension publication entitled "High-Tensile
Woven Wire Fences for Reducing Wildlife Damage," FS 889, which the State Agriculture
Development Committee hereby adopts and incorporates by reference, as amended and
supplemented, pursuant to
N.J.A.C.
1:30-2.2. This publication is available on the
Rutgers Cooperative Extension website at http://njaes.rutgers.edu/pubs/;
ii. With respect to electric fencing, the Rutgers
Cooperative Extension publication entitled "Vertical Seven-Wire Deer Control Fence,"
FS 151, which the State Agriculture Development Committee hereby adopts and
incorporates by reference, as amended and supplemented, pursuant to
N.J.A.C.
1:30-2.2. This publication is available from the
Rutgers Cooperative Extension, Department of Agricultural and Natural Resources, 88
Lipman Dr., New Brunswick, NJ 08901;
iii. With respect to portable electric fencing,
the Rutgers Cooperative Extension publication entitled "Portable Electric Fencing
for Preventing Wildlife Damage", FS888, which the State Agriculture Development
Committee hereby adopts and incorporates by reference, as amended and supplemented,
pursuant to N.J.A.C. 1:30-2.2. This publication is
available on the State Agriculture Development Committee website at
http://nj.gov/agriculture/sadc;
and
iv. The particular fence
manufacturer's installation instructions and guidelines.
2. Pursuant to
N.J.S.A.
4:1C-9 and
N.J.A.C.
2:76-2.3 and 2.4, a commercial farm operator shall
request a site specific agricultural management practice recommendation from the
appropriate County Agriculture Development Board or the State Agriculture
Development Committee, in counties where no county agriculture development board
exists, when installing, maintaining, or utilizing a type of fence not specifically
recommended in this agricultural management practice.
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