Oregon Agricultural Heritage Program 2023

Lend your support to the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Program (OAHP)! This program funds conservation and succession planning, technical assistance, and working lands easements. 

Issue: OAHP received $5 million in funding in the spring of 2022. This was the first appropriation to OAHP's grants since the program was signed into law in 2017. This new funding is helping farmers and ranchers across the state. It also attracted millions in federal funding for working lands protection. The 2023 legislature will decide again whether to fund the program to benefit agriculture, habitat, open space, and rural economies.

 Take Action

1. Before Monday, April 10: Write to your state legislators asking them to include funding for OAHP in the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board’s budget.

  • State that you are supporting $10.8 million in funding for the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Program in 2023-2024 to help farmers, ranchers, habitat, and our rural communities. See this 2-pager to learn more about the program and the request.

  • Find your state legislators here or see a list of all representatives here and senators here.

  • Register to testify here - after registering you can submit written testimony or sign up to testify in person or virtually.

2. Testify at a roadshow. The full Ways & Means Committee is going on a road show to Portland, Newport, Roseburg, and Ontario in April.

  • Find details in this document

  • Register to testify in advance by clicking on the date of the meeting you'd like to attend in this website.

3. We’ll send updates with ways to submit testimony directly to the Joint Ways & Means Subcommittee on Natural Resources. Sign up here to receive emails.

 With your support, we can bring in needed funding to protect Oregon's irreplaceable working lands.

View information on HB 3366:

$10 million for grants & $800,000 for program administration for OAHP.