Alaska Farmland Trust Not a Bad Deal

The Alaska Farmland Trust is creating an opportunity for local farmers to help preserve farmland for future generations, according to Arthur Keyes, chairperson of the Alaska Farm Service Agency State Committee. In a letter to the editor, Keyes defends the program — which was written about in a previous article “In Farm We Trust” — after the borough’s assembly could not reach a decision on whether to continue matching federal grants to help preserve farmland. They also argued that the private sector should step in to help preserve farmland and not the federal government. Read the letter to the editor or “In Farms We Trust.”