Posted on 06/25/2025 1:51:49 PM PDT by Twotone
US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced that the USDA is moving to assist the New Jersey farmer whose 175-year-old family farm is facing seizure by local government through eminent domain.
Rollins posted on X that she had spoken directly with the farm’s owner, Andy Henry, after Cranbury Township approved a plan to take his 21-acre property for the development of affordable housing.
“The city govt has approved seizing his 175-year-old family farm via eminent domain for affordable housing units,” Rollins wrote. “Whether the Maudes, the Henrys or others whom we will soon announce, the Biden-style government takeover of our family farms is over. While this particular case is a city eminent domain issue, we @usda are exploring every legal option to help.”
Rollins also posted a link to the USDA Lawfare Complaint Form, a web portal for “potential farmer, rancher, and USDA customers who have fallen victim to unfair and politically motivated lawfare originating under the Biden Administration.”
Henry’s farm, located on South River Road in Middlesex County, has remained in his family since 1850, surviving generations of hardship and waves of nearby development. It is now the last working farm in an area overtaken by industrial warehouses and distribution centers.
“My family sacrificed on this land for 175 years,” Henry said, according to AgWeb. “All the other farms disappeared. We did not. We will not.”
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Similarly, there is a persistent effort by Federal agencies and environmental groups to relocate packs of wolves to California in areas near cattle ranches that have been operated and passed down in the same families for 150 years.
The enviro-government complex is trying to kill off farms so the Feds can control the "means of production," which is to say, the autonomous ability of the populace to eat and survive.
“Most farms in my area are run as a side business by families with other bigger sources of income.”
Andy Henry lives 2,000 miles away.
I am not sure whether the law which mandated the number of affordable housing units for each county/municipality has been taken to court yet. If it does and a judge finds in NJ favor you can be sure other states will follow suit.
This farm is leased out, too. Owner has been offered up to 30 million. No way the government will match that.
Interesting story.
Here in NY every time the comrades destroy a farm they put out radio ads saying “NY is PROUD of our dairy farmers”.
While they race to obliterate the kulaks.
Worked so well for the Soviet Union.
/ Sarc
Every time I hear someone say we need “affordable housing” I want to slap them. Send 40-50 million illegals home & there will be a ton of housing available & rent & sales prices will plummet.
Just declare it a historic site for some bug.
Change the guys name to patrick and claim it is patrick henry’s farm and make it a national historic site.
which would supposedly bring in more tax dollars to the benefit of the area. I wonder whatever happened with that abuse of “eminent domain”?>>> There was some in Keyport, NJ it hink and Kelo was the US commie supreme court case that allowed NH to take a guys property so they could put in housing and collect more taxes.
All housing is affordable. Buy within your means, like I do. What pisses me off is they force developers to set aside a few units as "affordable" housing, and allow them to overwhelm a neighborhood with monstrous buildings that don't have adequate parking for residents. The so-called "affordable" units can cost $4000/month rather than $6000/month of other units. What the hell? As if a dozen units will make a dent on waiting lists of thousands of applicants.
Too often people want housing they can't afford that is located in trendy high-rent districts. Other people seek housing in more reasonable cost areas, even though it may be inconvenient. Too bad, this is how it has been done for hundreds of years. We started with a fixer-upper in a poor area, and eventually moved to a better location, all without government intervention or giveaways.
Federal Law is superior...you can’t water a Federal Law to suit you whims.
Cranberry Township is not a city. It is about 50% farmland, 40% warehouse/light industrial and 10% suburban development or the village of Cranberry. The township is trying to keep the low income housing on the east side where all the warehousing is located and away from the village and high priced suburban developments.
The median home price in Cranberry Township is $900,000.00.
“I remember some years back that a substantial number of homeowners along some beach area were evicted so the town could build a tourist resort, which would supposedly bring in more tax dollars to the benefit of the area. I wonder whatever happened with that abuse of “eminent domain”? ”
You might be thinking of Long Branch NJ where a bunch of middle class people lost their beachfront homes so a developer could come in and build expensive High Rise condos. The developers and town used eminent domain to force the property owners to sell. The biggest developer was Kushner Co and Jared Kushner was the company CEO at the time. The same Jared Kushner who is President Trump’s son in law.
GOVERNMENT USING EMINENT DOMAIN TO STEAL FAMILY FARMS. https://gailhonadle.substack.com/p/government-using-eminent-domain-to
More CLOSURES will be forced on the mRNA JABS ARE FORCED on the CHICKEN, HOGS, AND BEEF PRODUCERS.
“My family sacrificed on this land for 175 years,” Henry
said, according to AgWeb. “All the other farms disappeared.
We did not. We will not.”
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Time will tell. The world keeps turning and things change.
Like it or not.
Yet the damage done by Petisides in Endangering HONEY BEES IS IGNORED.
Thank you. That may be the it. However, I have a lingering memory that some or many of the homes were actually further in from the beach, and that is what the big uproar was about.
I'm not sure what you mean.
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