The Morrow Soil and Water Conservation District is glad to announce the "Landowner Stewardship Programs" Series occurring on Wednesday evenings from 6:30-7:30 during the winter/spring of 2025 in the 2nd floor AgCredit Building Conference Room at:
5362 U.S. 42
Mount Gilead, Ohio 43338
Each of these sessions, offered at no cost, aims to increase awareness of opportunities available to enhance, protect and/or preserve your acreage with the added benefits of cost-share, conservation practice payments and/or tax incentives. Individuals are welcome to join all sessions that are of interest to them. After a brief presentation on each program there will be an opportunity for the presenters to take questions from attendees.
Schedule (Printable):
Farmland Preservation &
Beginning Farmer Tax Credit
Feb. 5th, 2025
Jessica Neff - ODA, Office of Farmland Preservation
Amanda Bennet - ODA, Office of Farmland Preservation
Farmland Preservation is a voluntary easement between landowners and the Ohio Dept. of Agriculture to permanently preserve acreage for agricultural use.
The Beginning Farmer Tax Credit program offers tax credits to new farmers who attend a financial management program and/or to individuals that sell or rent farmland, livestock, facilities or equipment to new farmers.
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Current Agricultural Use Value (CAUV)
Feb. 12th, 2025
Conni McChesney - Morrow County Auditor
Kelly Tennant - ODT, Division of Tax Equalization
CAUV is an Ohio Department of Taxations program that, for property tax purposes, places the value of farmland devoted exclusively to commercial agriculture according to its current use rather than at its "highest and best" potential use.
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Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) &
Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
Feb. 19th, 2025
Emily Price - USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Crystal McCown - USDA, Farm Service Agency
CRP is a voluntary program that contracts with producers to conserve environmentally sensitive land.
EQIP provides technical and financial assistance to producers to address natural resources concerns and environmental benefits on their acreage
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Conservation Easements
Feb. 26th, 2025
Hannah Kelling, Western Reserve Land Conservancy
An agreement entered between landowners and a land trust that permanently limits the uses of the land to preserve its conservation or agricultural use.
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Land as Your Legacy
April 2nd, 2025
Lacey Rowell, Nationwide Insurance
Caleb Douce, Financial Advisor
Nationwide’s program to assist families in developing effective transition plans for agricultural operations. Including the division of land, livestock and equipment among children and/or desired parties.
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Registration to each session is preferred, but not required. Please reach out to Morrow SWCD's Program Administrator, Tyler Butler, at mocoswcd@redbird.net or call into the main office at (419)946-7923 with registrations and/or questions concerning these sessions. Please include the name(s) of sessions attending and total number of individuals attending with you with your registration.
***This series is a non-promotional service and is exclusively educational in nature. The Morrow Soil and Water Conservation District does not endorse any one organization/agency, their representative and/or program.
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