Agenda Overview

12:00pm

Conference Registration Opens

3:00pm

Conference Opens
Welcome: LFG and USDA
Open Plenary: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives on Farm and Ranch Access and Transfer

4:30pm

Break

4:45pm

Workshop Session 1 begins:

• Beginning Farmers’ and Ranchers’ and Other Seekers’ Land Access Needs
• Farmers without Successors
• Non-operator Landowners
• Planning for Land Access
• Attorneys In Access and Succession Assistance
• Urban Land Access
• Facilitating Good Transactions

6:15pm

Break

6:30pm

Reception (included)

7:15pm

Dinner (included)
Remarks, Commissioner Brown, CO Dept. of Agriculture

8:45pm

International Farm Transition Network Open House
Movie night: Documentaries related to our issues

7:00am

Breakfast (included)

8:00am

Plenary: Public Policy Dimensions of Land Access and Transfer

9:15am

Concurrent workshop sessions:

• Access to Capital and Financing Land Access
• Tools, Methods and Innovations in Succession and Transfer Planning Assistance
• Connecting Landowners and Farmers/Ranchers
• Shared Ownership, New Partners
• Land Access and Transfer curricula
• Addressing Systemic Prejudice
• Land and Water Rights

10:45am

Break

11:15am

Concurrent workshop sessions:

• Role of Easements and Conservation
• Transition Planning and Farm Programs
• Public Farm and Ranch Lands
• Paths to Ownership
• International Perspectives on Farm and Ranch Transition
• Heir Property and Partition Sales
• Land Access for Military Veteran Farmers and Ranchers

12:30pm

Lunch (included) and farmer panel

2:15pm

Concurrent roundtable sessions (facilitated, peer-directed explorations):

• To Own or Not to Own: Is that the Question?
• Building Succession Advisor Teams
• Working with Non-operator Landowners
• Incubators, Apprenticeships, Mentoring and Land Access
• Farm Link Programs
• Research and Policy Agenda
• New Agrarian Views on Land Tenure

4:00pm

Break

4:30pm

Plenary: Racial Equity Challenges in Land Tenure

6:00pm

Dinner options:

• On your own downtown Denver – our Denver partners will suggest their favorites. Catch the convenient A Line train to multiple locations.
• Group excursion to Comal includes chartered bus transportation there and back. Please indicate dinner excursion at time of registration.

7:00am

Breakfast (included)

8:00am

Concurrent workshop sessions:

• Leases and Leasing
• Technical Issues in Transfer Planning Assistance
• Women on the Land
• Farmland Investors
• Land Trusts, Land Access and Land Protection
• Land Tenure Advocates: Individualized Support, System-wide Impact
• Institutional Lands for Agriculture

9:30am

Regional breakout sessions

11:00am

Break

11:15am

Closing Plenary: Where to Next?

12:15pm

Adjourn