Farms Under Threat Report from AFT

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Taylor in Farming Resources, Finding Land, Internet Resources, Policy, Publications, Research, Statistics and Trends, Webinar // 0 Comments

American Farmland Trust is pleased to share their new report Farms Under Threat: The State of the States.

Farms Under Threat is American Farmland Trust’s multi-year initiative to document the status of and threats to America’s agricultural land while at the same time offering policy solutions to save that land. The State of the States paints a striking picture of the threats facing agriculture and documents the steps every state has taken to protect and retain their agricultural land base for working farms and ranches.

Along with the Farms Under Threat report, you also can explore AFT’s maps and policy findings on our interactive website which has additional resources, such as summaries for each state to highlight the findings from our mapping and policy analyses.

Finally, here is the link to two webinars that took place on May 20th. The first is led by AFT’s president John Piotti and features a roundtable discussion about the implications of our findings with NRCS Chief Matthew Lohr and California Secretary of Agriculture Karen Ross. The second features the report authors and provides a deeper exploration of AFT’s findings and policy recommendations.

AFT hopes these new resources will be valuable to your work and that you will share widely with your contacts and lists. And please feel free to contact AFT at (800) 370-4879 or online at www.farmlandinfo.org if you have questions or need technical assistance.

American Farmland Trust was founded in 1980 to save America’s farms and ranches. In the intervening years AFT has created the conservation agriculture movement, which speaks for the land and for the people who grow our food. AFT has three priorities: protecting agricultural land, promoting environmentally sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land. Today, because of AFT, millions of acres of farmland that otherwise would have been converted into house lots and shopping malls remain in farming, and tens of thousands of farmers and ranchers have adopted better farming practices.