In sharp contrast to the Navy's Combat System Engineering facility, a farmer goes about his day's work. Though known for its neighborhoods and downtown area, much of Moorestown Township still is reserved for agriculture. Today, things have changed. Farms are rare and becoming rarer.
Housing developments are everywhere and sprout like mushrooms.
Pew says, while recounting an instance when it took five years to get tree branches trimmed on a road upon which he drives large farm machinery. The branches had been knocking mirrors and other things off the sides of his equipment. The township wouldn't do it. Pew, who along with his son, Harold, farms more than 1,000 acres in Burlington, Camden and Gloucester counties, but calls Moorestown home, faces many problems farming in the township where he still harvests soybeans which, along with corn, are the top crops in Moorestown and throughout Burlington County. Pew rents about 300 acres, dispersed around the township.