Hoosier Chapter
  Soil & Water Conservation Society

 
Indiana Working Farmland Protection

             


Help Establish an Indiana Farmland Protection Program 
Join with the Hoosier Chapter SWCS in its efforts to encourage state government and legislators to support establishment of an "Indiana Working Farmland Protection Program.  Use items below as appropriate to support farmland protection efforts.

Item

Format

IN Farmland Protection Fact Sheet

PDF

IN Farmland Protection News Release

PDF

Additional Sources of Farmland Protection Information:
Federal Farmland Protection Program, including fact sheets, is available on the web at http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/frpp .

General information about farmland protection is available from the American Farmland Trusts website at: http://www.farmland.org/

Additional information about the farmland protection and the Federal Farm & Ranch Land Program are available from Ron Lauster, Legislative Committee Chair, Hoosier Chapter Soil & Water Conservation Society, Email flsc@indy.rr.com , phone- 317-569-0063 

Indiana and Federal Farmland Program information about the USDA-NRCS Farm & Ranch Land Protection Program is available on the Indiana USDA NRCS web site.


A paper from the Brookings Institute on Rebuilding America. puts the need for rural planning in an entirely different focus.   Check out the  Executive Summary or the Complete Paper (note these are pdf format files and take a while to download).


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