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Panel urges stronger, more flexible funding and certification for agricultural conservation easements
Summary
Witnesses advocated increasing federal match rates, expanding certified entity roles and removing AGI limits for Agricultural Conservation Easement Program participation to speed closings and protect farmland, while urging transfer of unobligated IRA dollars into easement funding.
Tim Fink of American Farmland Trust told the subcommittee that agricultural conservation easements are essential to stemming farmland loss and recommended statutory and administrative changes to expand participation and speed transactions under the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP).
Fink summarized research showing high historic rates of farmland conversion and the role easements play in…
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