Succession Schools offer options for New England’s Retiring Farmers
Agrarian Trust’s underlying goal is to ensure that the farmland in this country continues to be so after it has left the hands of its current owners. 400 million acres […]
Organic Dairy Training Program in Maine
Wolfe’s Neck Farm Secures Major Grant from Stonyfield to launch an Organic Dairy Farmer Training and Research Program For many years, the story of dairy farming in New England was […]
Nothing Sucks Like Succession
By Dave Pratt From the Ranch Management Blog. You know how difficult it was to have that talk with your kids about the facts of life? There is a talk […]
Agricultural Transition: Recognizing the Growing Importance of Farm Transition Issues
Choices Magazine highlights many of the facets of farmland transition in a string of articles around the theme “Transitions in Agriculture”. Among the illuminating writes are: Drivers of Agricultural Transition […]
Interview with Joel Salatin
The Greenhorns Radio Program covered the ground of agricultural land use and transition with forward-thinking farmer Joel Salatin on the Heritage Radio Network. Salatin described the hurdles for young start-up […]
Land Gifting Tradition and Agrarian Trust
The Schumacher Center for a New Economics, a partner of Agrarian Trust tells of the tradition of land gifting and our hopes for an agrarian future. On a shelf in […]
Farm Profile: Tom and Irene Frantzen and their 300 acre Organic Farm in Iowa
AMES, Iowa —Tom and Irene Frantzen’s desire to preserve their New Hampton land for generations to come led them to bequeath the 300-acre certified organic farm to Practical Farmers of […]