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Speaker 1: Shimariah Blum Evatts as executive director for Land for Good,

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Speaker 1: a nonprofit based in Keen, New Hampshire that works across

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Speaker 1: New England helping farmers and landowners preserve or create farmland.

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Speaker 1: Why is this important?

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Speaker 2: New England is losing nineteen acres of farmland every day

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Speaker 2: and sixty one percent of current farmers are over the

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Speaker 2: age of fifty five. A lot of them do not

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Speaker 2: have succession plans in place for who will continue on

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Speaker 2: their farm.

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Speaker 1: They educate farmers on how to develop a succession plan.

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Speaker 1: They also help non farming land owners from inherited estates

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Speaker 1: to educational properties turn their land into farmland. Carl Stephens

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