{"id":10813,"date":"2024-12-13T23:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T23:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/?p=10813"},"modified":"2024-12-13T23:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T23:02:30","slug":"exploring-land-conservation-insights-from-the-buy-sell-protect-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/blog\/2024\/12\/13\/exploring-land-conservation-insights-from-the-buy-sell-protect-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Land Conservation: Insights from the &#8220;Buy, Sell, Protect&#8221; Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>On Wednesday, December 4, 2024, Mediation Director Bob Holbert participated in an online forum with the Mid-Atlantic Region of the National Agricultural Land Network and the American Farmland Trust.\u00a0 These groups work to reduce the amount of farmland we are losing to development across the country.\u00a0 Presenters Allison Volk and Jan Joannides told the forum about the \u201cBuy, Sell, Protect\u201d program in which land is purchased from a retiring farmer, sold to a new farmer, and protected from future developments with easements.\u00a0 The program was very informative and gave guidance on selecting parcels of land, placing conservation or development right easements on the property, and selecting good candidates to ensure continued ag production on the lands, all of which results in reduced land prices and increased production. This program fits in well with FARM-VA\u2019s and\u00a0 NCAMP\u2019s missions to assist in farm transition\/succession planning.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 4, 2024, Mediation Director Bob Holbert joined an online forum hosted by the Mid-Atlantic Region of the National Agricultural Land Network and the American Farmland Trust. The forum featured the innovative \u201cBuy, Sell, Protect\u201d program, presented by Allison Volk and Jan Joannides. This program facilitates farmland transitions by purchasing land from retiring farmers, reselling it to new farmers, and safeguarding it from development with conservation easements. The initiative provides valuable guidance on land selection, easement placement, and ensuring productive agricultural use\u2014all while supporting FARM-VA\u2019s and NCAMP\u2019s missions of farm succession planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3388,"featured_media":10814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10815,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions\/10815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/agriculturalmediation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}