First things first: The Jones family said there are no plans to sell any land in Jones Valley — the revered farmland in east Huntsville — and no plans for new development.

If you’ve seen or heard anything different, it’s not true.

“I just didn’t want the wrong message to get out there,” Raymond Jones Jr. said in an interview Tuesday with AL.com while noting there has been some misinformation about the farm on social media. “People are going to think what they’re going to think. But if there was a way to put the right message out there about what’s actually happening, not someone speculating, it makes the world simpler for everybody.”

Changes, however, are coming in Jones Valley. The Jones family along with the Lowe and Blue families of Huntsville outlined those plans in a statement Monday.

The first is that the family is stepping back from cattle farming — a decision made more than a year ago “as a result of negative financial pressures and labor shortages.” Instead, the family will focus on crop farming with corn, soybeans, cotton and wheat in the coming years. They removed some fencing around the farm because it is no longer needed.

The second change is that construction is expected to begin as soon as this week on three bridges on the north side of Carl T. Jones Drive across from the Target-anchored shopping center. The statement said the family received the permit for the bridges more than four years ago.

“They’re designed to, at some point, have vehicular traffic go,” Jones said in the interview. “But they’re not going to have that right away. They’re just being built and they’re just going to be sitting there. But it’s going to look like we’re off and running with a major development when in reality, we simply are not.”

As for the future of Jones Valley, the family also addressed it in the statement.

“Currently there are no plans to develop any part of the farm,” the statement said. “However, we cannot always see or predict the future and at some point, some of the farm may be developed. Our hope is that the family’s track record speaks for itself as we have been slow and deliberate in the development of the farm.

“The farm is our home and we have more at stake in the development of this blessing than anyone. Our focus will continue to be deliberate and forward thinking, but change is unavoidable and is ever evolving. It is our current plan for much of the farm to remain in a state of agricultural uses for many years to come.”

Jones said about 1,800 acres of the 2,400-acre farm remains undeveloped.