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Session Descriptions

Investigating Lands in Transition

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Farm Credit plays a vital role in the finance of America’s rural lands. With each passing year a portion of those rural lands are transitioned into residential or commercial development. Identifying “Lands in Transition” is an intricate process that under FCA regulation considers the Person, the Purpose, and the Property. Equally intricate are the considerations an appraiser employs in the valuation of these types of properties. Barry Mardock and Paige Akins will walk through FCA regulations pertaining to “Lands in Transition” and provide an overview of effective strategies employed by management to identify these properties, as well as a focus on effective appraisal reporting practices when the answer is not so clear..

Learner Outcomes:

  1. Impact Assessment of the Regulatory Requirements surrounding Lands-in-Transition
  2. Introduce Strategies Exercised by System ACA’s to identify Lands-In-Transition
  3. Demonstrate effective Appraisal Strategies that can aide in the “Property” component analysis of the LIT assessment and valuation of lands subject to competing land uses.