In the last 20 years, Kentucky has lost 1.4 million acres of farmland and 17,000 farms. We have to work together to figure out the solutions needed to change that.
The Kentucky Farm Bureau is launching the Kentucky Farmland Transition Initiative to address the loss of Kentucky farmland and decline in Kentucky farmers by doing the following:
helping farm families access resources related to farmland transition and learn their options.
connecting providers of services to transitioning farmers to one another and to people who need their services.
determining how existing state and federal policy is working and what policy changes may be needed to increase the amount of farmland going to active farmers.