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Alaska needs farmers. Farmers need farmland.

States Newsroom · October 14, 2026

This summer, I stood with a landowner at the edge of a hayfield her parents cleared more than 60 years ago. Wisps of her grey hair caught in the wind, and her eyes narrowed as she looked out over her farmland ground, thinking about so many neighboring farms that have been converted to gravel pits and subdivisions…

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Alaska needs farmers. Farmers need farmland.

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