Local ranch receives protection

Rick Patrick rick@greenepublishing.com Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson recently announced that close to 2,300 acres of ranch land known as the Kip Whaley Ranch will now be protected under the Rural and Family Lands Protection Program (RFLPP). This means the 2,292-acre cattle and timber operation, located in Madison County, will be permanently preserved from development. The RFLPP was created in 2001 and since then, over 125,000 acres of working agriculture land has been prot