Conservation Easements within Farm Succession Planning – recording now available for viewing online
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Are you a farmer or owner of farmland? Check out our recorded webinar “Conservation Easements within Farm Succession Planning” to see if a conservation easement might play a part in your farm estate planning.
During the video, Kim Hayes of the Leelanau Conservancy and Will Manty of the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy provide details about when and how conservation easements can be set up for farmland. They describe how easements can fit within a larger succession plan, discussing both the benefits and challenges that can occur. They also provide a number of related resources for diving deeper into details.
For viewers that want to search for specific content, use the following timeline. The video starts with a description of conservation easements. The benefits of conservations easements, and what they are and are not, are described starting at 9 minutes 33 seconds. How the easements are valued is described beginning at 16 minutes 49 seconds, and farm easement examples are shared at 28 minutes 1 second. Funding resources are shared at 33 minutes 55 seconds, and the Q&A and discussion period starts at 50 minutes 18 seconds.
The recording is available for viewing anytime
For questions, contact the authors – their contact information is provided near the very end of video or contact Chris Bardenhagen, Farm Business Management educator at bardenh1@msu.edu.
