Putnam County, FL Right to Farm: Agricultural Zoning Protection (2026)

Section 45-72(a) states the AG district's purpose is to implement the agriculture land use classification on the county's Future Land Use Map, and adds that it "also serves as a holding zone" in urban service, urban reserve, rural center and rural residential future land use categories, letting AG zoning and agricultural uses "remain in place until development more consistent with future land use category are ready to locate." Section 45-72(b) allows "Agriculture: General," defined in section 45-57 as outdoor production, keeping or maintenance of plants and animals for food, forage, fiber or ornamental purposes, by right alongside single-family residential use, resource- and activity-based recreation and educational uses.

Certain agricultural-adjacent uses are also allowed outright under section 45-72(c), including residential livestock keeping, mobile homes and solar farms. More intensive agricultural operations, defined in section 45-58 as those requiring a Florida Department of Environmental Protection waste disposal permit, such as feedlots, high-intensity dairies, hog farms and poultry farms, need a special use permit under section 45-72(d), as does agriculture-related commercial activity like livestock auctions, feed stores and slaughterhouses under section 45-59. The parallel agriculture estate (AE) district in section 45-73 implements the same agriculture land use classification with a similar by-right structure, though it limits AE housing to site-built and modular homes and bars mobile homes.