Pacific Northwest Land Transfer Navigators

Are you wondering about the future of your farm?
Are you considering how to transition away from full-time production?
Not sure how to start planning your next steps?

Land Transfer Navigators are skilled professionals who provide direct assistance to farmers, ranchers, and landowners. They support succession and transfer planning so a new generation can thrive on the land.

Navigator staff are available to help you:

Access information and planning resources.
Set goals and identify next steps in your planning process.
Prepare for conversations with family members and business partners.
Connect with attorneys, business advisors, and other experts.
Follow-through on your plans and keep making progress.

Don’t wait any longer – start planning for the future today!

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Explore Transfer Resources

Whether you own a farm, forest or rangeland, you care about your property and what happens to it. Planning ahead will help ensure it can stay in agriculture. Use these guides to get started.

Land for Good’s Transferring a Farm Workbook will guide you through the beginning of your succession journey. This series of worksheets will help you define your goals and identify next steps!
Farmer Stories from Oregon Agricultural Trust show how other farmers have successfully transitioned their land. This is a good one for new and beginning farmers as well as experienced producers looking towards retirement.
Ties to the Land is a succession guide from Oregon State University that centers on the needs and experiences of ranchers, growers, landowners and small timber holders in the Pacific Northwest.

Estate Planning for Farmers and Ranchers from American Farmland Trust and other partners provides an introduction to estate planning and addresses the unique challenges of farmers and ranchers.
Family Business Planning Guide from AgWest is a step-by-step Estate Planning Guide created through years of experience working with producers!
This Asset Inventory Worksheet provides a framework to list and value the assets that will be transferred or acquired in a farm or ranch transfer.
This Retirement Budgeting Worksheet is a simple and direct worksheet that helps you understand your financial picture and plan for retirement.

Leasing Farmland Lessons a simple step-by-step lesson on different types of leases, how to determine rental rates, and other great information.
Powerful Questions to Prepare for Agricultural Lease from Farm Commons is a checklist of key questions to discuss when creating a lease agreement.
Farmland Access Legal Toolkit Leasing webpage is a comprehensive guide to different types of leases and even includes a “lease-builder”. Explore their website and get your questions answered.

Oregon Agricultural Trust’s Easements 101 is short and sweet introduction to conservation easements with a FAQ and nice visuals.
Farmland Access Legal Toolkit guide to conservation easements describes how easements work, poses questions to consider and provides related resources that can support your succession or land transfer goals.
Protect your Land. Learn about agricultural conservation easements and opportunities to partner with federal, state and local entities.
Washington Association of Land Trust’s Conservation Easement webpage is a straightforward introduction to conversation easements.

Meet the Pacific Northwest Navigators

Elizabeth Bragg
serving the Pacific Northwest

David Anderson
serving Idaho

Information for Service Providers

Do you support farmers and ranchers in the Pacific Northwest?

We have events and resources for you.

Our quarterly Land Transfer Navigators Regional Forums bring together local professionals who support farm and ranch transfers. Service providers such as attorneys, appraisers, lenders, mediators, and others specializing in succession and land transfer gather to create robust networks, share resources, and learn from each other.

Forums are co-hosted with AFT’s National Agricultural Land Network.

Register for Upcoming Forums in the PNW

The Land Transfer Navigators Partnership

An estimated 41% of agricultural land is projected to change hands by 2035. In response, American Farmland Trust, in partnership with USDA-NRCS, has launched the Land Transfer Navigators program to support retiring landowners and the next generation of farmers and ranchers.

Learn more about the Land Transfer Navigators

Learn more about AFT’s Pacific Northwest programs

American Farmland Trust protects the Pacific Northwest farmland and ranchland that produces some of the best food in the world. We help farmers and ranchers steward the land so that it continues to provide environmental benefits for all of us. We also collaborate on initiatives that boost the region's ability to provide food for its communities.

Pacific Northwest Regional Office

Pacific Northwest Land Transfer Navigators

Don’t wait any longer – start planning for the future today!

Explore Transfer Resources

Meet the Pacific Northwest Navigators