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How To Find, Assess and Secure Farmland

Plain language guide provides clear, straightforward, and accessible text to help you confidently act upon what is learned. LFG and New Entry Sustainable Farming Project.
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Farm Access Methods Guide

Decision guide that stands out in its organized and practical way of understanding and assessing land access methods.
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How to Create Effective Online Property Postings for Farm Link Websites

Guide for landowners to create accurate and appealing online farm property postings specifically focusing on how to convey information most relevant for farmers.
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Farm Access Decision Tool

Summary and companion piece to Farm Access Methods Guide to help you compare methods to access land.
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FarmAnswers.org

Programs, resources and comprehensive library to help you get started farming, as well as tools to help more seasoned producers succeed. University of Minnesota.
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New England Farmland Finder

The region’s largest farm link website with more than 4,000 subscribers and growing. Farm seekers can search property postings and subscribe for weekly updates of new postings. Landowners can post a property at no charge.
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Herramienta de decisión sobre el acceso a las granjas

Comparar formas de acceder a las tierras de cultivo.
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A New Lease on Farmland: Assuring a Future for Farming in the Northeast

Article by Schumacher Center for a New Economics
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Finding Your Farm: Necessary, Desirable, Optional

Worksheet to help identify and rank your priorities.
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Accessing Farmland Together

Guidebook and decision tool if considering group farming.
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Beginning Farmer Learning Network

Learning Network, Cornell University
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Encontrando tu granja: Necesario, Deseable, Opcional

Hoja de trabajo para identificar y clasificar sus prioridades.
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Obteniendo Tierras Juntes

Guía útil si se considera la agricultura en grupo.
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Farmland Tenure and Leasing

A Legal Guide to the Business of Farming (chapter 3). The UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture
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Conducting a Farmland Search

Webinar to help understand the process, strategies, and tools available as you search for farmland including farm linking sites, soil analysis, affordability calculations, and methods for evaluating land and infrastructure.
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AgPlan

Generate a draft business plan with customized templates and sample business plans for ideas. University of Minnesota.
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International Farm Transition Network

The IFTN is a network of service providers from different professional backgrounds (e.g., accountants, lawyers, farm managers, ag lenders, extension educators, etc.) working to assist farm businesses with their successful transition to an identified successor(s). 
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Farms for the Future

Workshop recordings and resources for municipalities, land trusts, and non-profits to support farms and farmers in northern New England. American Farmland Trust
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New Farmers Discovery Tool

USDA can help you get started or grow your operation through a variety of programs and services, from farm loans to crop insurance, and conservation programs to disaster assistance.

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Elementos de un buen contrato de arrendamiento de granja

Lista de elementos importantes a considerar con un contrato de arrendamiento de finca.
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Elements of a Good Farm Lease

List of important items to consider with a farm lease.
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Farmland Access in Urban Settings

Guidebook with suggestions, examples, and innovative models to help farmers negotiate land to farm in and around cities.
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Learning to Love a Farmland Lease

Article highlights the benefits of leasing and tools to support your lease.
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Affording Farmland

Webinar highlights the mechanics behind accessing and affording farmland, from the most basic lease or purchase, to some of the more innovative methods farmers are using to secure their land tenure.
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Preserving Affordable Working Farms

An article about what it means to preserve farms. LFG with Equity Trust
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Cooperative Holding of Land

Cooperative Farmland Holding (chapter 5 in the Greenhorns guidebook entitled Cooperative Farming) explains the methods by which farmers can hold land together highlighting legal and social considerations, tenure options, leasing scenarios, and ownership.
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Successful Farming on a Land Cooperative

One farmer’s story of a successful cooperative venture.
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Build-A-Lease Tool 

Generate a working lease document with sample language and fill-in fields for the most common sections of a farm lease. Includes leasing include definitions and FAQs. (Templates are not a legal document nor should they replace legal advice from an attorney.)

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Agricultural Land Tenure Curriculum

Farm LASTS Project (2007-10)
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Access to Land

Article about farmland tenure and access. The Natural Farmer (Winter 2002-2003).
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Public Land For Farming

Article with examples of farming on public, state, and municipal land. The Natural Farmer (Spring 2016).
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UVM Extension New Farmer Project

Chock full of relevant resources. University of Vermont.
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New Entry Sustainable Farming Project

Resources, workshops, apprentice programs, and trainings in Massachusetts.
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Farm Land Access, Succession, Tenure and Stewardship Project: Research Report & Recommendations

(2010), Farm LASTS Project
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Farm Land Access, Succession, Tenure and Stewardship Project: Executive Summary

Farm LASTS Project (2007-10)
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Access to farmland: A systems change perspective

by K. Z. Ruhf. In the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (2013) *
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Does the Option at Agricultural Value Protect Farmland for Beginning Farmers? A Policy Analysis

(2013)
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Farmland Access and Tenure Innovations: Policy and Program Suggestions to Promote Land Access for New England’s Beginning Farmers

(2013)
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Farmland Investors: An Exploration for New England and Beyond

(2013)
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Gaining Insights, Gaining Access Project

Gaining Insights, Gaining Access project (2014-2016) held focus groups across New England of older farmers with no identified successors to learn more about this large, influential farmer subset. LFG and American Farmland Trust.
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Keeping Farmers on the Land: New Research Underscores Need To Address Farm Transition in New England

(2016) State and region reports from the Gaining Insights Project by American Farmland Trust and LFG
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Farmland Investment Models: Innovative Land Access in New England 

(2016)
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Current Use Valuation and Tax Incentives for Urban Areas

(2016) Produced through the New England Land Access Policy Project
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Analysis of State Estate Taxes in New England

(2016) Produced through the New England Land Access Policy Project
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State-owned Land for Farming

(2016) Produced through the New England Land Access Policy Project
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Investigating the Possibility of a Beginning Farmer Loan Program or Tax Incentive in Connecticut

(2016) Produced through the New England Land Access Policy Project
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Policy Options for Strengthening Farmland Mitigation in Massachusetts and other New England States

(2016) Produced through the New England Land Access Policy Project
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Developing & Strengthening Farm Link Programs Guide 

(or print version) for practitioners and advocates of compiled lessons and successful practices from the National Farm Link Clinic (April 2019)

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Tools & Resources for Working with Farms with Commercial Agricultural Potential

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Tools & Resources for Supporting BIPOC Farmers in Your Community

Webinar for municipalities, land trusts, and non-profits working to become a stronger ally for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and advance equity-based land access partnerships and projects. Maine Farmland Trust, American Farmland Trust, Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust, Southeast Land Trust NH, Vermont Housing & Conservation Board.
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Farmland Advisors Webinar: Non-Farming Landowners

webinar recording
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Farmland Advisors Webinar: Farm Transfer and Estate Planning

webinar
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Farm Succession Advising: Attorney Training Compendium

provides solid legal background material and technical tools to use in assisting farmer clients to develop their succession plans
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A Team Approach to Farm Transfer Planning

guidebook
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Succession Planning Assistance: Filling the Gap

(2018) presentation slides from the National Risk Management Education Conference
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Farmland Information Center for Policy Makers and Professionals

at American Farmland Trust
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Farmland Advisors: Land Access 

archived webinar
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Farm Transfer Network of New England

Find a listing of farm transfer advisors such as attorneys, financial planners and land use professionals, searchable by New England state and topic area.
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Additional Strategies To Find Farmland

Tip sheet for preparing for your land search. Your chances of success are greater if you use a multi-pronged approach.
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New England Farm Link Collaborative

Organizations that help build awareness, farmer and landowner readiness, and connections among farm seekers, farmers and landowners of all types across New England.
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New England Farm Link Program Guide

Guide explains New England’s four farm link programs – Vermont Land Link, Maine Farm Link, Connecticut Farm Link and New England Farmland Finder – and what each program offers.
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Farmland Purchasing Basics

Answers to the most common legal questions around purchasing and financing farmland. Farm Commons.
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Equity Trust

National non-profit organization helping communities to gain ownership interests in land and other local resources, as well as alternative ownership structures for farms.
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Guide to Farming in New York State

Basic information with resources specific to New York State. Cornell Small Farms Program, Northeast Beginning Farmers Project.
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Finding Farmland Calculator

Mortgage calculator for determining financing options and creditworthiness when buying farmland. National Young Farmers Coalition.
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More Land Access Resources

Links to many practical, and academic items on a wide range of topics related to land access. Greenhorns
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Affording Our Land

Financial literacy guidebook on various land access methods for new farmers. Greenhorns. 
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Holding Ground: A Guide to Northeast Farmland Tenure and Stewardship

A comprehensive classic guide. New England Small Farm Institute.
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Finding Land to Farm: Six ways to Secure Farmland

A cartoon-illustrated guide great for the basics and as a teaching tool. The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service – ATTRA.
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Finding Farmland: A Farmer’s Guide to Working with Land Trusts

A farmer’s perspective on negotiating good agreements. National Young Farmers Coalition.
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National list of farm link programs

If you are looking for property outside of New England, visit American Farmland Trust’s national list of farm link programs.
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Cash Lease Template

Customizable lease template with blanks to fill-in. By California Farm Link
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New England Food Policy: Building a Sustainable Food System

Land, chapter 1. American Farmland Trust, Conservation Law Foundation, Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (2014)
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