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Your Farm's Future

This working cattle ranch in Skagit County permanently protected more than 80 acres through the Skagit County Farmland Legacy Program in 2025. Its third and generation owners are working to keep the ranch in operation for future generations.
 

As an owner of Skagit farmland, you care about your property and what happens to it.

You might need help with its transition to future farming owners.

Could you use help knowing where to start, or figuring out your next step?

Skagit County Farmland Legacy Program offers resources, networking, and workshops in support of strengthening the viability and continuity of farm operations in Skagit County.

Protecting farmland isn’t only making sure that prime ground remains farmable. It also means making sure our next generation is able to continue farming and can access land.


The sooner you start, the more options you have—for you and for the next farming generation

Succession Planning Resources

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Explore Land Transfer & Succession Planning Resources

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Cynthia Buchanan of Egbert Acres in Bow, WA
Cynthia Buchanan of Egbert Acres in Bow, WA

Farm succession planning is complex. Much of it is technical. Much of it is tender, with complex family issues and examining your life’s legacy. Few farmers can do it on their own.

No one service provider has all the expertise.

Don’t go it alone.

 

Succession Planning Process

Farm succession planning is the process of determining how a farm is passed on to the next generation or unrelated operator. Farm succession often:

  • Ivolves a business
  • Involves the land the operation sits on
  • Requires transfer of income, assets, management
  • May take a decade or more

Secure your farm’s future and move your personal succession process forward with practical tools, resources, and one-on-one conversations.

Connect with a Land Transfer Specialist

Explore Land Transfer & Succession Planning Resources

Connect with Skagit County Farmland Legacy staff

Small farmland parcels like this one in Skagit County are attractive prospects for farmers and non-farmers alike.
Keeping our parcels—big and small—actively farmed is key to the viability of agriculture in Skagit County.

Small farmland parcels like this one in Skagit County are attractive prospects for farmers and non-farmers alike. Keeping our parcels—big and small—actively farmed is key to the viability of agriculture in Skagit County.

 

Land Access & Succession News

Small farmers seek Skagit’s big magic

Skagit County Farmland Legacy Program Part of National Focus to Help Farmers Protect, Transfer, and Access Land

Skagit County farmers discuss farm succession in first of three free workshops

Skagit County Farmland Legacy Hosts Community Workshops on Succession Planning

Skagit farmland preservation efforts buck WA trend of agriculture loss

Farmland Legacy Annual Report, 'It’s not farmland without farmers' (pg 6)

Skagit County Farmland Legacy

Farmland Legacy Program

Contact

Program Coordinator:
Sarah Stoner

(360) 416-1417
sstoner@co.skagit.wa.us

Natural Resource Division Contacts

Physical and Mailing Address:
1800 Continental Place
Mount Vernon, WA 98273

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