The North Carolina Rural Center's Agricultural Advancement Consortium will be hosting a presentation by Under Secretary for Rural Development Thomas C. Dorr. According to the US Department of Agriculture, there is more than $1.7 trillion in equity in farmland in the United States.  Under Secretary Dorr’s presentation will focus on what states need to do to create low-risk investment models that will allow land-owners access to the equity built up in their farmland.  This would provide a market-based tool helping to alleviate the development pressures on land-owners who are cash poor, but asset rich.

For details contact Billy Guillet, Director, Agricultural Advancement Consortium at 919 250 4314 or email bguillet@ncruralcenter.org.