July 2025

Farmland preservation in the news

• Buy-Protect-Sell Guidebook | Jefferson Land Trust
  
  
• Blue Mountain Land Trust saves Hayshaker Farm through farmland property purchase | Blue Mountain Land Trust
  
  
• Farmland and fish habitat: Partners on planned lower Newaukum River project hope it’s a match made in heaven | The Daily Chronicle

Agriculture in the news

• From Bees to Beer, Buckwheat Is a Climate-Solution Crop | Civil Eats
  
  
• Border closed again as New World screwworm advances north | Capital Press
  
  
• Yakima basin water supply drops even lower | Capital Press
  
  
• ICE enforcement directives flip flop for agriculture. What does that mean in Central Washington? | Yakima Herald
  
  
• Snohomish County’s new Ag Tech program creates access for farmers | HeraldNet.com
  
  
• Washington teen develops world’s first hydrogen tractor | Capital Press

Events

• Grazing Tour with Farmer Olivia Raine | Washington Farmland Trust
  
  
• WSU-USDA Sunrise Research Farm Field Day | WSU Tree Fruit | Washington State University
  
  
• Farmland Succession Mixer | Washington Farmland Trust | Thurston Conservation District - August 12 from 3-6

Trainings and Resources

• Buy-Protect-Sell Roundtable – July 16th, 2025 | National Agricultural Land Network | American Farmland Trust
  
  
• Easements for Land Access: Conservation Finance Webinar | American Farmland Trust
  
  
• Pacific Northwest Land Transfer Navigators | American Farmland Trust

Job Announcements

• Agricultural Lands Acquisitions Contractor - Community Farm Land Trust 
  
  
• Job Board | Washington Association of Land Trusts - Opportunities listed with Palouse Land Trust, Lummi Island Heritage Trust, Peninsula Trails Coalition, King County, and Shadow Lake Nature Preserve
  
  
• Careers | American Farmland Trust - Opportunities for an Idaho External Relations Manager, and remote roles as GIS Analyst, Easement Monitoring and Stewardship Manager, and Institutional Partnerships Coordinator. 
  
  
• Job Board | State Conservation Commission - Opportunities with Grays Harbor, Snohomish, King, and Walla Walla Conservation Districts. SCC is also hiring for a Southeast Regional Manager. 
  
  
• Administrative Assistant 3 | State Conservation Commission

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The Washington State Conservation Commission administers the Office of Farmland Preservation to address the rapid loss of working farm and forest lands in our state. Learn more: www.scc.wa.gov/ofp.