By Jerry Hagstrom
DTN Political Correspondent
and
Chris Clayton
DTN Ag Policy Editor
SAVANNAH, Ga. (DTN) — A rule to implement the 2018 farm bill ?heirs’ property? provision to help farmers who have inherited land but don’t have clear title or right to Agriculture Department and disaster programs is now at the White House Office of Management and Budget, a key Agriculture Department official said here this week.
The rule will probably be released later this year and will be subject to a 90-day comment period, Latrice Hill, national director for outreach at the USDA Farm Service Agency, said at a National Farmers Union session this week on the heirs’ property issue.
Monica Rainge, director of land retention and advocacy at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, said the problem arises when a farmer dies without a will or succession plan and his children inherit the land as tenants in common.
