Tuesday, June 13, 2017 12:00pm
Conference Registration Opens
3:00pm
Conference Opens
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)
8:45pm
International Farm Transition Network Open House
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.
