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Andrew Branan

Andrew Branan has worked around the Southeast US with farmers and landowners on farm succession issues since 2002. He currently serves as Executive Director of the North Carolina Farm Transition Network. For that organization he delivers educational programs targeted at producers, landowners and their professional advisors related to developing long-term plans for keeping land in agriculture and other legal issues related to farming. He also works directly with farm families on developing their farm succession planning. He earned dual degrees in Management Economics and History from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia (where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa), and his law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law. A member of the bars of North Carolina (active) and Virginia (associate), his law practice experience includes estate planning, business formation and land use issues. He formerly served as Southeast Project Specialist for American Farmland Trust. He also serves as an advisor to the North Carolina Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund and Mount Olive College’s Lois G. Britt Agribusiness Center. He serves on the board of the International Farm Transition Network, and is a member of the American Agricultural Law Association. He is currently working to publish the second edition of Planning the Future of Your Farm: A Workbook on Farm Transfer Decisions. He is also the author of Zoning Limitations and Opportunities for Farm Enterprise Diversification: Searching for New Meaning in Old Definitions, published by the National Agricultural Law Center.

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