AMT437- AGENDA EXPOSED: They Are Quietly Re-Engineering Who Owns the Land | As a Man Thinketh

The headline vs. the paperwork
In early September 2025, news outlets and posters on X blasted California for plotting “farmland redistribution.” The claim traces to an advisory body—the Agricultural Land Equity Task Force (CALETF)—created in the 2022 Budget Act (AB 179) and housed at the Strategic Growth Council (SGC). The task force’s stated mission is not to seize private farms, but to draft recommendations for “equitably increasing access to agricultural land” for food production and Tribal uses. Drafts are explicit: they’re not state policy and not endorsed by the Governor.
The most recent public draft reports (Feb, May, Aug 2025) sketch four pillars: (1) Tribal stewardship and land return, (2) protecting and strengthening working lands, (3) equitable land transition and acquisition, and (4) securing tenure. Mechanisms include returning some state-owned land to Tribes, public land leasing for “priority producers,” low-interest/forgivable loans, down-payment assistance, rights of first refusal, model “first opportunity to purchase” ordinances, and tax credits for owners who sell or lease to target producers at or below market. These are voluntary or public-land pathways, not compulsory takings.
To implement pieces of this toolbox, lawmakers advanced AB 524 (2025)—the Farmland Access and Conservation for Thriving Communities Act—which (as enrolled Sept. 10, 2025) would set up a DOC-run program to finance acquisitions, long-term leases, and easements via voluntary transactions, working with land trusts and similar entities.
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