State updates Rural and Family Lands easement program; aims to start about 75 projects this year
The Florida Department of Agriculture updated the Senate Committee on Agriculture on the Rural and Family Lands Protection Program, reporting expanded acreage protected via easements, a $250 million appropriation for 2025 and plans to begin roughly 50–75 new projects annually, while stressing enrollment in agricultural best management practices.
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John Paul Freitas, director of the Rural and Family Lands Protection Program at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, told the Senate Committee on Agriculture that the program is expanding its use of conservation easements to preserve working agricultural land.
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