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Dec 1, 2017
2 min

Weekly Roundup Dec. 1st

By Sarah Fielder A Growing Number of Young Americans Are Leaving Desk Jobs to Farm For only the second time in the last century, the number of farmers under 35 years old is increasing, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest Census of Agriculture. Sixty-nine percent of the surveyed young farmers had college degrees — significantly higher than the general population. To read the full story go here: https://go.umd.edu/xdj Mid-Shore Farm and Forestry Succession

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Nov 3, 2017
4 min

Weekly Roundup Nov. 2nd

By Sarah Fielder New Federal Gift Exclusion and Lifetime Exclusion Amounts Announce for 2018 Recently IRS announced that the annual gift exclusion will be $15,000 per person and the lifetime exclusion amount will increase from $5.45 million in 2017 to $5.6 million in 2018. The annual gift exclusion allows a taxpayer to gift up to $15,000 per person taxfree and any amount over $15,000 would be subject to taxes. The lifetime exclusion allows a taxpayer to give up to $5.6 mill

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New Funding Opportunity for Young and Beginning Farmers Purchasing Land

Sarah Everhart

Aug 8, 2017
2 min

New Funding Opportunity for Young and Beginning Farmers Purchasing Land

By Sarah Everhart The article is not a substitute for legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. This summer the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation (MARBIDCO) launched the Next Generation Farmland Acquisition Program (“Next Gen Program”) to help qualified young and beginning farmers interested in purchasing farmland. The Next Gen Program allows MARBIDCO to provide a qualified “beginner farmer” (and possibly other) applicant

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Mar 1, 2017
2 min

Young Farmer Success Act Reintroduced

By Faiza Hasan According to the 2012 U.S. Census of Agriculture, the average age of the American farmer has been steadily increasing and is currently 58 years old. That statistic, combined with the fact that the number of new farmers was down 20% in 2012 has many people concerned about the future of farming. Which leads to the question: how can young people be encouraged to become farmers? On February 15, a bi-partisan group of U.S. Representatives (Reps. Glenn Thompson of

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Nov 20, 2015
4 min

Weekly News Roundup: November 20th Edition

By Mayhah Suri Two New Proposed Positions for the Aquaculture Coordinating Council Encouraging oyster growth has been an important part of Maryland’s environmental efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay as oysters filter water. Oysters are also a growing sector of Maryland aquaculture. The federal EPA has now expressed interest in the development of best management practices by the Chesapeake Bay Program through an expert panel whose charge is to evaluate the scientific effic

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