Genesee Valley Conservancy receives $12.3M to protect farmland The Express Six family farms in the Genesee Valley will soon be protected following grant awards announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The funding through the Farmland Protection Implementation Grants (FPIG) program will allow the Genesee Valley Conservancy to purchase 25 conservation easements on highly productive farmland across three counties and eight towns in the Genesee Valley. Protecting these farms will ensure their highly productive soils remain available for agricultural use for generations to come and that the families farming these lands will be able to continue their business without losing their land to subdivision or development.