RALEIGH, N.C.–The Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund will hold an advisory committee meeting to review the trust fund budget and plan of work for 2018. This meeting is open to the public.
WHEN:
Thursday, Jan. 25
1:30 p.m. to 3:20 p.m.
WHERE:
NCDA&CS Hall of Fame Room
2 W. Edenton Street, Raleigh
BACKGROUND
INFORMATION:
The Agricultural and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund supports the farming, forestry and horticulture communities within the agriculture industry by supporting the purchase of agricultural conservation easements, funding public and private enterprise programs to promote profitable and sustainable family farms, and providing funding for conservation easements targeted at the active production of food, fiber and other agricultural products.
–Dewitt Hardee, NCDA&CS Farmland Preservation
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