Saturday, January 15, 2011

Effort Launched to Save Maine Farmland

The Maine Farmland Trust today launched a campaign to preserve 100,000 acres of farmland throughout the state by 2014. The initiative, announced this morning at the annual state farm show in Augusta, was prompted by concerns that much of Maine's farmland will be in transition in the next 10 to 15 years as aging farmers sell off their farms or die.

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