Our Mission

The mission of the Texas Agricultural Land Trust is to help Texans conserve their agricultural lands, wildlife habitats, and/or natural resources, and to enhance and sustain the long-term stewardship of private lands for the benefit of all Texans. 

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Notice of Accreditation!

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The Texas Agricultural Land Trust (TALT) is pleased to announce that it has applied for accreditation from the national Land Trust Accreditation Commission. The Commission is an independent program of the Land Trust

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Welcome

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Thank you for taking the time to visit the Texas Agricultural Land Trust online. We hope that this site will provide you with the information that you need as a landowner, a policy maker, journalist or simply someone who cares about Texas' working farms and ranches and all of the benefits that they provide.

About Us


TALT serves as a resource for landowners interested in long-term conservation of their lands, and as a resource for the state’s major agricultural organizations. Modeled on the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust and other Western states agricultural land trusts, TALT’s mission is to conserve open space, natural habitat and history of stewardship provided by Texas’ farms and ranches. >read more.

The fragmentation of ... family owned farms and ranches poses perhaps the greatest single
threat to our wildlife habitat and to the long-term viability of agriculture in Texas.
 Read more:
Taking Care of Texas, A Report from The Governor's Task Force on Conservation, October, 2000.