Sec. 111. Farmland protection program

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Section 1238I of the Food Security Act of 1985 ( 16 U.S.C. 3838i ) is amended— in subsection (b), by inserting to promote farm viability for future generations before the period at the end; and in subsection (g)(4)— in subparagraph (B), by striking and at the end; by redesignating subparagraph

(C)as subparagraph (D); and by inserting after subparagraph

(B)the following: provide a funding priority, to the maximum extent practicable, for— eligible land for which there exists a farm or ranch succession plan or similar plan established to create opportunities for beginning farmers and ranchers and encourage farm viability for future generations; easements that exercise an option to purchase at a price that is equal to the agricultural use value; qualified beginning farmers or ranchers with contracts to purchase the land to be protected; land owned by a nongovernmental organization that will be sold to a qualified beginning farmer or rancher; contemporaneous farm transfers of eligible land to qualified beginning farmers and ranchers that may not occur without the financial assistance of the program; and other similar mechanisms to maintain the affordability of farm and ranch land for successive generations of farmers and ranchers; and .

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Farmland protection program

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