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Recommendation: Provide dedicated state, federal, and private funding for technical assistance, programming, and mediation for farm succession programs. Funding will:
- Provide financial support for farmers to participate in succession planning programs.
- Develop more farm succession education opportunities throughout the state.
- Develop a mentorship program that provides opportunity for relationship building and skill/knowledge transfer between generations.
- Develop agriculture-specific training for service providers.
- Form more service provider networks, like the NH Food Alliance, to collaborate on farm succession programming specifically.
Craving context? This recommendation is included in the Farmland Conservation, Access, & Succession brief, part of the NH Food and Agriculture Strategic Plan.
Read the Farmland Conservation, Access, & Succession brief here
