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- From: KAKerby AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] farm transition ideas?
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:16:34 -0400 (EDT)
We're facing a lot of the same issues. My first question is - where
are you located? There are a number of local, regional and state programs
to help guide that transition; I can think of at least three within my local
area. But they are often geographically oriented, meaning that programs
here wouldn't be applicable to whatever area you're in. Even providing
county/state would be helpful. Second, have you spoken with any attorneys
and/or lenders in your area to start to get some options lined up? Those
conversations don't tie you into any one option; they just help flesh out which
options you have and what they'd look like in your day-to-day life. Third,
would your continuance of the farm operations constitute business-as-usual for
that farm, and merely be a change in who's holding the reins? Or would
your management involve changes to the products being sold, operations being
conducted, equipment/facilities being used? The more similar the
operation, the easier that transition is going to be to "sell" to a variety of
third-party groups who might help shepherd that ownership transition. On
the other hand, if you have very different ideas on what you intend to do with
that property, you'd have to show a lot more paper trail for how you're going to
do it. So that matters too.
You're in very good company. Lots and lots of folks (including us)
are facing the same scenario. There's no one right answer here. If
you lived here I'd refer you to the various training seminars and non-profit
groups who are working to keep farmland in farming hands. It's a big
enough issue that most areas will have something similar. So a bit more
info on your location would be a good starting point.
Kathryn Kerby frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
In a message dated 4/14/2014 2:49:01 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
bestici AT hotmail.com writes:
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[Market-farming] farm transition ideas?,
alicia best, 04/14/2014
- Re: [Market-farming] farm transition ideas?, Ken Bezilla, 04/14/2014
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Re: [Market-farming] farm transition ideas?,
Mary Embleton, 04/14/2014
- Re: [Market-farming] farm transition ideas?, Aaron Brower, 04/14/2014
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- Re: [Market-farming] farm transition ideas?, KAKerby, 04/14/2014
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