A26-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 25, 1992 (Continued from Page A 1) land in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County. Since it was established in 1988, the trust has saved 27 farms and their 2,120 acres of fer tile land. The group has also assisted the county government’s Agricultural Preserve Board when funding or time would have made it impossi ble to complete a protection transaction. “The Lancaster Farmland Trust is making one of the best efforts I’ve seen to protect the farmland in an area that has been increas ingly threatened by urbanization in recent years,” said AFT Presi dent Ralph Grossi. “They’ve employed innovative strategies to acquire conservation easements while meeting the financial con cerns of the farmers involved. And this year, the trust acquired the nation’s very first easement from an Old Order Amish farm family. There’s no doubt the group has become a national model for local land protection.” Other recipients of the 1991 AFT Agricultural Conservation Awards are: NATIONAL POLI CY AND PROGRAM DEVE LOPMENT, Ferdinand Hoefner of the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition of Washington, DC for his influential woric in all areas of policy related to government sus tainable agriculture programs. STATE POLICY AND PROG RAM DEVELOPMENT, Dela ware for its commitment to pre serving agricultural resources and its qualifications for federal farm land assistance. LOCAL POLICY AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, Sonoma County Farmlands Group for its active and innova tive approach to protecting agri culture in a Northern California county. CORPORATE MODEL LAND PROTECTION, James River Corporation for its restoration of the historic 1,800-acre Upper Brandon Farm on the James River about IS miles upstream from Jamestown, Virginia. 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