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| | Mn/DOT - OTS, PPG HPDP, Farmland Impacts |
 | | Agricultural land includes prime farmlands, unique farmlands, and farmlands other than prime or unique that are of statewide or local importance. |
 | | Prime farmland is land that has the best combination of physical and chemical characteristics for producing food, feed, fiber, forage, oilseed, and other agricultural crops with minimum inputs of fuel, fertilizer, pesticides, and labor, and without intolerable soil erosion, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. |
 | | Unique farmland is land other than prime farmland that is used for production of specific high-value food and fiber crops, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. |
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