{"id":408232,"date":"2026-09-23T13:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408232\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:28:12","slug":"state-spends-7-million-to-limit-development-on-trio-of-ranches-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408232\/","title":{"rendered":"State Spends $7 Million to Limit Development on Trio of Ranches \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img width=\"650\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Farm.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>                                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By The News Service of Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than $7 million is being used to prevent the commercial or residential development of three working ranches and farmlands in Polk and Putnam counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deals involve conservation easements, which the Rural and Family Land Protection Program uses to allow existing agricultural operations to continue in exchange for restricting future land development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The largest parcel, the 916-acre G-3 Ranch Addition in Polk County, has a price of $6.45 million. The pasture and row crop land includes creeks that flow into the Peace River. Polk County is expected to cover about $500,000 of the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another $750,000 is directed at the 75-acre David &amp; Elizabeth Hunt cow\/calf ranch in Polk County. The land runs along a stream that links Gator Lake to Lake Pembroke. Polk County is expected to cover $250,000 of the deal\u2019s cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conservation easement deal\u00a0in Putnam County\u00a0involves the Young Family Farm, an 85-acre timber tract that touches the northeastern corner of Putnam Lakes Preserve. The department lists the deal at $160,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The department noted that each property is located within either the Florida Ecological Greenways Network or the Florida Wildlife Corridor.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790170092_109_2feb62a33afabb2a91d79ebaef0ef1d0e6240306aa2d5bd82b9d514a59736a98.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The News Service of Florida More than $7 million is being used to prevent the commercial or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-408232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}