Workshop Focuses On Land Transitions, Farming

NEBRASKA CITY  – The Center for Rural Affairs is hosting a free workshop for aspiring and retiring farmers at the Kimmel Education and Research Center in Nebraska City.

“Managing for the Future: Beginning Farms and Land Transitions” will be on Tuesday, Dec. 10,  from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Project Associate Justin Carter said the workshop is designed for landowners and beginning farmers who are experiencing a variety of decisions on topics that will impact the long-term futures of both their families and finances.

Carter: “We have a new generation of farmers coming about, so we want to give them tools to access resources, such as financing, getting access to land, working through leases, so they can start farms successfully.”

He said there was a great reaction to a similar workshop that was held in Ord earlier this fall.

Carter: “We had a variety of folks. We had retiring generation farmers there. We had a good amount of beginning farmers under 30. An interesting thing we had a lot of families come, as well. Families that are looking to pass land down to their children, kind of brought every generation with them and we especially had a good reaction from those folks.”

Presentations and landowner discussions will be facilitated by Dave Goeller, retired deputy director of North Central Extension Risk Management Education Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and resource provider at Nebraska Rural Response Hotline.

Beginning farmer discussions will be led by Kirstin Bailey, project associate at the Center for Rural Affairs.