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FARM TRANSFER ISSUES & PUBLIC POLICY
This section focuses on professional and policy issues surrounding farm transfer. Farm transfer affects not only exiting and entering farm families. Communities and policymakers care about the future of farms and farmers’ ability to successfully pass along the farm business and farmland. You will find presentations about farm succession issues, public policy analyses and policy recommendations.
A New Lease On Farmland: Assuring a Future for Farming in the Northeast
An essay on the changing nature of farming and farmers in the northeast, with reference to leasing and other concerns
Susan Witt and Jay Rossier; Hildegarde Hannum, ed.
E. F. Schumacher Society
2000, 210 pages
http://www.schumachersociety.org/publications/essay_new_lease.html
Farm Family Succession in the 21st Century
An insightful overview of the farm family succession process, including history, current issues, and practical applications
Richard J. Cressman
University of Guelph
2006, 35 pages
http://www.cressman.net/thesis.html
Farmland Transfer & Protection in New England
A guide for entering and exiting farmers; includes worksheets; not limited to New England farm operators
Kathryn Z. Ruhf
The New England Small Farm Institute (NESFI)
1999, 124 pages
Order online
$12 includes s/h
http://www.farmlandinfo.org/farmland_preservation_literature/index.cfm?function=article_view&articleID=29905
Research on farm transfer in several U.S. states and Canadian provinces
Andrew Errington
The University of Plymouth, England
2000, 15 pages
http://www.management.edu.ru/images/pubs/2003/11/29/0000135240/075-067-errington.pdf
Holding Ground: A Guide to Northeast Farmland Tenure and Stewardship
A comprehensive guide that includes an examination of "non-ownership" tenure, leases, paths to ownership, and stewardship goals
Annette Higby, Kathryn Z. Ruhf, and Andrea Woloschuk
The New England Small Farm Institute
2004, 162 pages
Order online
$34 includes s/h
http://growingnewfarmers.org/main/bookstore/publications/
A review of public policies relating to farm transition
Steve Schwartz, Marion Bowlan, and Grace Jones
CA Farm Link
2000, 35 pages
http://www.californiafarmlink.org/pdfs/reportintro.pdf
Property and Values: Alternatives to Public and Private Ownership
Property rights issues considered from multiple perspectives and an exploration of new and more socially equitable forms of ownership
Charles Geisler and Gail Daneker, eds.
Equity Trust
Island Press, 2000, 2 p.
Order online
http://www.islandpress.com/bookstore/details.php?sku=1-55963-766-8
The Challenge of Family Business Transition
The challenges of passing on the family legacy; a sequence of planning steps; and implications for agriculture
Dr. David Kohl and Dr. Alex White
Farm Credit of the Virginias
2001, 4 pages
http://www.reap.vt.edu/publications/horizons/hor13-5.pdf