Planning Today for Tomorrow’s Farms

The objective of this workbook is to provide readers with a basic guide to farm and forest succession planning concepts and processes. This workbook seeks to prepare readers to effectively search for and use the appropriate professional services required for the development of an effective farm succession plan.

Throughout, this workbook assumes that the farm transfer will take place between two families, related or unrelated, and that their business relationship will continue over an extended period. However, the information contained in the manual is applicable to a wide range of situations.

Successful farm succession planning requires a comprehensive approach that involves all of the planning categories discussed below. Given the potential for each chapter to be used independently, some information may be reiterated in other chapters. Lastly, this manual is meant to be used in conjunction with the website farmlandlegacy.tennessee.edu where additional references and information on upcoming conferences and training will be provided.

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