The AG District is intended to permit, protect and encourage the continued use of land for agricultural uses by conserving areas of land large enough to allow for efficient farm operations and associated enterprises, protecting groundwater resources and providing for the conservation of environmentally sensitive areas. Those areas designated Agriculture Zoning are to be used primarily for agriculture purposes and limited residential, non-residential and accessory uses in general conformance with the Comprehensive Plan.

A building may be erected, altered or used, and a lot may be used or occupied for any of the purposes listed in the Use Table[1] and no other.

As indicated in the Dimensional Table.[1]

All lands within the Agricultural Zone are located within an area where land is used for commercial agricultural production. Owners, residents and other users of this property may be subjected to inconvenience, discomfort and the possibility of injury to property and health arising from normal and accepted agricultural practices and operations, including, but not limited to, noise, odors, the operation of machinery of any kind, including aircraft, the storage and disposal of manure, the application of fertilizers, soil amendments, herbicides, and pesticides. Owners, occupants and users of this property should be prepared to accept such inconveniences, discomfort and possibility of injury from normal agricultural operations, and are hereby put on official notice that Section 4 of Pennsylvania Act 133 of 1982, the "Right to Farm Law,"[1] may bar them from obtaining a legal judgment against such normal agricultural operations. From the effective date of this chapter, all subsequent subdivision plans submitted with this zone shall require a note which duplicates this section and which must be transferred to the purchaser by the seller.

Any agriculture, horticulture or forestry-related uses which involves earthmoving activities, or plowing and tilling or the commercial harvesting or timbering of vegetation, shall require the acquisition of an approved Erosion and Sediment Pollution Control Plan from the County Conservation District pursuant to Chapter 102, Erosion Control, of Title 25 Rules and Regulations, Department of Environmental Protection.[1] All on-site activities shall comply with the approved erosion and sedimentation pollution control plan.