The Fox Business correspondent, Jeff Flock, reports on a family farm in New Jersey in danger of being seized by the local government, and how the Trump administration can intervene to help stop it.
A longtime family farm in Cranbury, New Jersey, risks being seized by the city by the eminent area.
The situation with the farm belonging to the Christopher and Andy Henry brothers, who has been part of their family for 175 years, recently pulled a notice of American Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
Rollins said on X last week that she “examined this situation immediately”, adding: “We have to protect family farms at all costs.
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“Let the curses, the Henry or others that we will soon announce, the takeover of the government’s Biden style of our family farms is over,” she wrote in a position on June 17. “Although this particular case is a problem of the eminent domain of the city, we @usda explore all the legal options to help you.”
Rollins also said that she had been “on the phone” with Andy Henry.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in the Oval Office as President Donald Trump signs executive decrees at the White House on April 9, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images / Getty Images)
The farm is threatened with seizure by the canton of Cranbury after a municipal committee has been reported a measurement which will open the way to an eminent domain crisis, Nj.com reported.
The canton of Cranbury may plan to build affordable accommodation mandated by the state On a large part of the farm lands, depending on the point of sale.
The Henry brothers would fight to prevent the firm’s seizure for months.
The family farm, which is now rented for the cultivation of livestock, has belonged to Christopher and Andy Henry for more than a dozen years. They paid $ 200,000 in property and refused $ 30 million offers won by developers at that time, NJ.com reported.
The Henry farm is rented for livestock farming. (/ istock)
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While advocating keeping their farm, the Henry brothers said that its proximity to warehouses would not make a good place to build affordable accommodation and that there are better sites elsewhere. Their lawyer, Timothy Dugan, also argued that this decision contradicts the city’s work to preserve agricultural land in the region.
Fox Business contacted the mayor of Cranbury, Lisa Knierim and Dugan, to comment.
Andy Henry told Fox Jeff Flock sales correspondent that the city move “has completely shocked us”.
Managers said that a fair market price would be offered to the Henry family in the event of an eminent domain, by NJ.com.
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Asked about it, Andy Henry told Flock that his family “did not even want to sell it”, but said that the city “would offer us much less than a warehouse developer”.
KNIERIM is looking for an eminent farm buyer takeover, because it would economical developers pursuing expensive “remedy” prosecution, according to nj.com.
She also said that no one “was in favor of an eminent area” or “wants to see a farm disappear” in the past, reported NJ.com.
Andy Henry told Flock that Rollins “said that she would make some calls” when she spoke with him.
“She recognized that this is not a federal problem, but she tries to help anyway possible,” he said.
The canton of Cranbury is located in the North Center of New Jersey. The city itself houses several thousand people, with the county of Middlesex, the county in which it is, having a larger population of more than 890,000.
