Tuesday, June 13, 2017
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
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
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.
Thursday, June 15, 2017
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
Special thanks to our conference sponsors . Additional support provided by a grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture through its Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program, #2015-70017-23900.