Saving America's Working Lands National Conference 2027

Sponsors of Saving America’s Working Lands demonstrate leadership and commitment to safeguarding farmland and ranchland, strengthening rural communities, and advancing innovative solutions to land conservation and farm viability. Through sponsorship, your organization can gain meaningful visibility among a national network of practitioners, policymakers, industry leaders, and farmers and ranchers, while directly investing in the tools, partnerships, and knowledge-sharing needed to sustain America’s working lands for generations to come.

Your support helps make this critical gathering possible, amplifying the impact of the people working to protect our nation’s agricultural future.

Contact:
Erica Goodman, Director of Corporate Partnership, [email protected]
Diquan Edmonds, Corporate Partnerships Coordinator, [email protected]

Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities.

Featuring three days of in-depth workshops, field trips, plenaries, formal conference sessions, and informal discussion forums, Saving America’s Working Lands 2027 is for those of us who are tackling the loss of working lands, whether in local communities or the halls of state capitols and Congress.  Reflecting American Farmland Trust’s holistic approach, the conference will emphasize solutions that address the economic and environmental challenges farmers and ranchers face in sustaining agriculture and keeping working lands in production.

Conference objectives include:

• Provide actionable research and analysis around America’s working lands — who owns them, who works them, what they contribute to the nation’s economy, environment, and quality of life, and where and why they’re being lost. 

• Feature successful strategies and partnerships at the community, state and regional levels to retain and protect working farm and ranch lands and to foster successful agricultural operations on the land.  

• Uplift new approaches to farm transfer and succession that improve/facilitate land access opportunities and explore what is truly needed to enable the next generation of producers to gain the ground and capital needed to succeed.  

• Provide meaningful opportunity for formal and informal peer discussions around federal and state policy and program innovations. 

• Offer the perspectives of farmers, ranchers, and landowners who have successfully worked with their community to take action to save the land that sustains us.

We plan to open early-bird registration on Dec. 1st!

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Ticket offerings available:

• Full Conference Tickets: Include all three days, meals, and networking events for the entire conference.

• One-Day Tickets: Include tickets for either Thursday-only or Friday-only. Meals for that specific day are included.

• Wednesday Pre-Conference Field Trips and Workshops are additional fees and can be purchased separately.

Stay tuned for additional updates and pricing details.

Wednesday, April 7

• Pre-conference field trips

• Pre-conference workshops

• Welcome Reception

Thursday, April 8

• Community Breakfast and Lunch

• Plenary Session

• Conference Sessions

Friday, April 9

• Community Breakfast and Lunch

• Plenary Session

• Conference Sessions

Curious to see what we did in 2025? View the schedule, speakers, and assets from our first Saving America’s Working Lands National Conference. Plus, see what organizations attended in 2025!