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Season Four: Succession Stories

Season Four is in the Works!

A new Reframing Rural season is underway! In collaboration with Winnett ACES, our team is working on a series committed to the critical topic of farm and ranch succession.

 

“An estimated 70% of U.S. farmland will change hands in the next 20 years” (USDA). Some family businesses won’t survive this vulnerable changing of the guard. In response, grassroots efforts by organizations like Winnett ACES are working hard to ensure the successful transfer of family farms and ranches to the next generation. Our supporters for this season – the Plank Stewardship Initiative, World Wildlife Fund and American Farmland Trust – are also invested in helping families stay in business by planning for succession.

 

Behind the legal, financial and familial considerations of farm and ranch succession, lay a wellspring of stories that don’t often surface in conventional planning discussions. This season, coming Fall 2024, we’ll unearth some of the stories laying beneath the logistics. Stories that investigate the leveling questions of life and legacy that we all must face one day. 

Check out past episodes 

Reframing Rural is a project of Tree Ring Records, LLC © 2025

These stories are produced and edited on the ancestral lands of the Assiniboine, Bitterroot Salish, Blackfeet, Chippewa Cree, Crow, Dakota, Gros Ventre, Kootenai, Northern Cheyenne, Pend d’Oreille and other Indigenous nations.

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