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Passing the Torch: Farm Transfer Planning & Conservation Easements

• Thursday, November 13, 2025, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Get practical knowledge about how conservation easements can serve as an effective tool for estate planning, capital gains management, and long-term land protection. Understand how easements can help preserve farmland for future generations while also offering financial benefits. Through a collaboration with NY FarmNet, the program will also discuss the resources offered through NY FarmNet, usch as estate and succession planning.

You can expect an engaging, in-person class with a presentation from Michael Sweeton with Orange County Land Trust and Joe Walsh from NY FarmNet. The session will begin with an overview of conservation easements and their role in estate planning and capital gains reduction, followed by practical case examples. Then, the NY FarmNet financial advisor will share tools and services available to support farmers in estate and succession planning.

This class will allow time for Q&A, giving participants the chance to ask direct questions. You'll leave with resources, and a clearer pathway to explore conservation easements as part of your long-term planning, along with different estate and succession planning tools.

Farmland for a New Generation New York is funded by the State of New York and is a partnership between American Farmland Trust, the State, and Regional Navigator organizations, with support from the County of Sullivan

Fee

FREE!

Register

https://pub.cce.cornell.edu/event_registration/main/events.cfm?dept=248

Location

Extension Education Center
64 Ferndale-Loomis Road
Liberty, New York 12754

Last updated September 29, 2025