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Access to Land: Boulder County Land Lease Program
2017-02-03 21:46:51| National Farmers Union
By Jimmy Dula, NFU Intern, and Vanessa McCracken, Agricultural Resource Specialist for Boulder County Parks & Open Space Boulder County, whose most populous city is the eponymous Boulder, Colorado, is home to the University of Colorado Buffs, and is infamous for an expansive population of tree hugging, rock loving, spiritually centered citizens. In the 1970s, an intergovernmental […]
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Access to Land: Farming on County Property
2017-01-31 19:12:08| National Farmers Union
By Jimmy Dula, NFU Intern As land values in many parts of the county continue to rise, and as urban development threatens rural landscapes, county governments have begun taking stewardship of farmland and its development rights in order to make the land available to farmers. Though programs vary in structure and funding, they share the […]
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Access to Land: Farm Church Q&A
2017-01-05 17:40:13| National Farmers Union
By Jimmy Dula, NFU Intern Allen Brimer is the farmer/pastor at Farm Church, an agriculturally-minded religious community. Brimer has extensive experience cultivating produce and raising farm animals, as well as over a decade of religious service. In this Q&A, Brimer tells us more about his operation and the challenges and opportunities he has encountered farming for […]
Access to Land: Farming for a Paycheck
2017-01-03 18:55:40| National Farmers Union
By Jimmy Dula, NFU Intern Among the many alternative agricultural economic models that have cropped up in recent years, farming for a paycheck has become increasingly common. Unlike traditional farming models, in which a producers self-generated income is contingent on crop yields and sales, in this arrangement, a third party guarantees producers a fixed salary […]
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Access to Land: Succession Planning
2016-12-08 23:33:22| National Farmers Union
For beginning producers who farm and ranch on intergenerational family operations, good succession planning is essential to securing access to land. By Brittany Ann Bula, Wisconsin Farmers Union, Beginning Farmer Institute 2016-2017 As a 4th generation farmer, and as my parents grow older, the touchy subject of secession farming is brought up more often than not. […]
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