The authority shall:

1. (a) Disseminate information regarding agricultural land protection and promote the protection of agricultural land;
2. (b) Assist county farmland protection boards in applying for and obtaining all state and federal funding available consistent with the purposes of the farmland protection programs;
3. (c) Upon request of a farmland protection board, provide technical and legal services necessary to procure, acquire, draft, file and record conservation and preservation easements;

4. (d) Prepare and file electronically with the Governor's office and with the Legislature by the thirty-first day of August of each year a report including, but not limited to, the following information:

   1. (1) The cost per easement obtained;
   2. (2) The identity of all applicants for conservation and preservation easements; and
   3. (3) The identity of all applicants from whom conservation and preservation easements have been acquired;
5. (e) Seek and apply for all available funds from federal, state and private sources to accomplish the purposes of the farmland protection programs.