The 1..2..3.. of Farm and Ranch Transition
With California Ag Today, I’m Haylie Shipp. This is the Ag Information Network.
Transitioning your farm or ranch to the next generation? Wish it was as simple as one, two, three? Thanks to a new product from American Farmland Trust (AFT), that reality is a step closer.
AFT has now released a new resource that’s available in both English and Spanish to build the skills and knowledge of beginning farmers and ranchers participating in a transfer.
The “Transitioning Land to a New Generation: Land Transfer Training” curriculum helps to face a pressing need as almost 300 million acres of American agricultural lands are expected to change hands in the coming decades. As aging farmers and ranchers retire, the incoming generation is struggling to afford to enter it, putting land at risk of changing to non-farm uses. Few tools exist to help cultivate relationships and plan for conversations involved in a farm or ranch transfer.
“The Land Transfer Training is designed to meet people where they are and to be adaptable while still building off of steps that are universal,” says Erica Goodman, AFT Farms for a New Generation Director.
Both the Spanish and English versions are at farmland.org.
