The Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plan benefits the Town of Junius. The township has been an agricultural community since its founding in 1803. Even though the NYS Thruway has traversed the southern part of the town since its opening in June 1954 and has maintained exits nearby, the town remained rural in nature with little outside pressure to change. Development and changing traffic patterns allowed travelers to crisscross Junius unimpeded, usually heading for points beyond the Junius borders. The Farmland Protection Plan addresses this local condition in the context of farmland protection.