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Funds Available for Farmland Protection in Maine The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service has announced that nearly $1 million will be available this year in Maine for successful applicants for the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection program. The state deadline is March 23 for 2013 funding. For more information on deadlines in other states, visit Continue reading Farm and Food News 1/13/12 State-level programs and policies have an enormous impact on farming. State actions can help save land or fuel its loss; they can encourage profitable farming, or inhibit it. That is why we can be found each year in state legislatures around New England, advocating for measures and funding that help improve farm profitability and retain Continue reading Spreading the No Farms No Food® Message State by State in New England This opinion piece was featured in The Delmarva Farmer. As a person involved in my family’s farm operation, a former EPA agricultural appointee, and the President of American Farmland Trust, an organization that supports farms and conservation, let me be the first to say that our nation faces serious environmental challenges and that agriculture has Continue reading Courtroom Drama Doesn’t Save the Chesapeake Bay |
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