Illinois Administrative Code › Title 8 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS › Part 700 - FARMLAND PRESERVATION ACT › Appendix A - Illinois Department of Agriculture › Exhibit D - Land Use Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Cropland - Land utilized for the production of cultivated,
				  close growing row, fruit or nut crops for harvest. Cropland includes the
				  following applications:
Horticulture
Fruit
Nut
Vineyard
Bush Fruit
Berries
Flowers
Other Horticulture
Row and Close Grown
Corn
Soybeans
Wheat
Oats
Sorghum
Barley
Rye
Vegetables
Sunflowers
Other Cropland - Cropland that is idle or placed in set-aside
				  or similar state or federal government programs, or devoted to crops not
				  mentioned above.
Hayland - Land managed for the production of forage crops
				  that are machine harvested. Forages are classified as grasses, legumes or a
				  combination of grasses and legumes.
Forages - All browse and herbaceous food that is
				  available to livestock or game animals used for grazing or harvested for
				  feeding.
Legumes - One of the major groups of forage plants
				  utilized as food for animals. This classification includes principally alfalfa,
				  clovers, trefoil, lespedezas, vetches, and kudzu. Soybeans, peas and beans are
				  also contained within this broad groupings; however, for the purpose of
				  annually reporting the amount of farmland converted to nonagricultural uses as
				  a result of state agency action, these crops shall be categorized under the
				  cropland designation.
Pastureland - Land used for the production of adopted,
				  introduced or native forage plants for livestock grazing.
Forestland - Land utilized for growing trees of any species
				  whether or not managed for timber products. Such lands minimally contain sixty
				  (60) trees per acre when average diameter at breast height (DBH) of the stand
				  is less than five (5) inches, or twenty (20) trees per when DBH average for the
				  stand is five (5) inches and larger.
Farmstand - That part of a farm that is occupied by the
				  dwellings, buildings, adjacent yards or corrals, plus family gardens and
				  orchards in which the produce is utilized for family consumption. Land in
				  farmsteads includes land used for barns, machinery sheds, grain bins, waste
				  lagoons, feedlots, pens, corrals and farmstead or feedlot windbreaks. Lanes to
				  farm residences are considered part of the farmstead.
Research and Experimentation Land - Land utilized for
				  research farms and experiment stations.
Other Land in Farms - Areas of farms not classified as
				  cropland, pastureland, hayland or forestland. Other land in farms includes
				  field windbreaks, ponds, commercial feedlots, confinements, greenhouses,
				  nurseries, and broiler facilities. Field lanes and field landing strips are
				  also included within this classification.
Other Land - Land used for residences, industrial sites,
				  commercial sites, construction sites, institutional sites, public
				  administrative sites, railroad yards, cemeteries, airports, golf courses,
				  sanitary landfills, sewage treatment plants, water control structures, and
				  spillways.