Farmbrite

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Finding the best farmland for your new farm involves several key steps to ensure you choose a location that meets your needs and goals. In this article, we're going to cover some ways to find farmland, questions to ask when at a potential farm location, and other tips and tricks.

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Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The current situation: Most American farmland acreage is dedicated to animal feed and fuel production. million acres of higher value fruit, vegetables, and melons would be needed to generate $32.9B of US farmland. Its point (you have heard this from me repeatedly): the U.S. It ought to focus on food for people.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Across the country, the US has lost both farms and farmland, according to the latest data from the 2022 USDA Census of Agriculture , released this week. The US is now home to about 880 million acres of farmland, down from 900 million at the time of the last census in 2017. million farms. It doesn’t have to be.”

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National Young Farmers Coalition

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

February 16, 2024) On Tuesday, February 13, 2024, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released the results of the 2022 Census of Agriculture. The Census reports 880 million acres of privately held farmland in the U.S., down from 900 million in 2017.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Editor’s Note: This blog post is the first in a two-part series through which NSAC examines the latest Census of Agriculture in more detail. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Last month, the U.S. million, 142,000 fewer farms in 5 years.” Slightly over 1 million of the 3.4 a decrease of 6.1

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast Washington, D.C. Gail Taylor and D’Real Graham at Three Part Harmony Farm, their one-acre farm in Washington, D.C.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Plastics are tightly woven into the fabric of modern agriculture. But plasticulture, or the use of plastic products in agriculture, also comes with a wide range of known problems. In the larger scope, agriculture accounts for a small slice of the plastics pie—less than 3 percent of the annual 440 million tons produced worldwide.

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American Farmland

MARCH 26, 2024

Farmland Access and Preservation in Connecticut: OPAV's Role. In Connecticut, the Option to Purchase at Agricultural Value (OPAV) emerges as a potential tool for aspiring, beginning, and seasoned farmers alike, which lowers the price of an acre of farmland to its agricultural value, helping to get more farmers on the land.

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American Farmland

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In 2022, AFT’s Farms Under Threat research indicated that Texas has the highest concentration of threatened agricultural land in America – with 2.2 million acres projected to be converted to real estate development by 2040.

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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A new state record blew past the previous one when it comes to farmland sales in Missouri. A farmer in Carroll County purchased 115 acres for $4 million, or $34,800 per acre. The auctioneer says most farmers he works with view farmland purchases made close to your operation as worth almost any price.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

farmland market has remained remarkably resilient for the last several decades—but will it last? But with fewer government payments and a softening commodity market, landowners might be wondering what this means for the future of farmland prices and cash rents. Cash Rents In general, cash rents rise when farmland values rise.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service. Up to 40 percent of farmland has been fallowed in some parts of Arizona,” he wrote in an email.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 28, 2024

His 2,500-acre family farm is patchwork across 40 miles of land the family owns and leases, and grows organic corn, soy, wheat and specialty crops such as beans and peas. Regenerative agriculture in practice looks different depending on the unique situation of the farm, and so does the funding for it. One of four branches of the MAD!

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Despite a global economic slowdown, farmland prices remain on the rise. Over the past ten years, farmland prices have increased nearly 40 percent. farmland market is so strong and what factors are influencing its growth. Farmland Prices in 2023 In the U.S. More than 75 percent of farmland in the U.S. That is a 7.4

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ProAg

JULY 27, 2023

farmland and agricultural businesses. The bill was centered around military spending, with language around farmland purchases built within, led by South Dakota Senator Mark Rounds. million acres of U.S. farmland or 3.1% China owns 347,000 acres of U.S. agricultural land.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

MAY 1, 2023

By Brent Gloy and David Widmar Many of us know the short version of farmland’s infamous bust during the 1980s. First, the farm economy derailed as commodity prices tumbled, resulting in fewer earnings generated by an acre of farmland. In 1981, farmland values peaked at $2,100 per acre, up from just $864 in 1975.

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Tillable

APRIL 10, 2023

Land Sale Bulletin is a premier provider of farmland sales transactions across the Midwest and is used by banks, appraisers, brokers and investors to understand farmland values and market trends. However, the information provided via CamoAg is a fraction of the sale data stored and housed by Land Sales Bulletin.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

MAY 22, 2023

While “red hot” would easily describe the farmland market a year ago, today’s market is more nuanced. In a few instances, I’ve seen and heard the word “cooling” used to describe the current farmland market. Recent Farmland Market Data In his recent AEI Premium article ( here ), Randy Dickhut summarized the recent farmland market data.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The authors suggest exploring a non-plastic, biodegradable alternative mulch to limit the threat to soil function and agricultural productivity caused by unabated plastic accumulation, given that around the world, over 25 million acres of farmland is seasonally covered with opaque plastic films.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When she moved to Oregon in 2006, she noticed a contrasting lack in access to culturally relevant foods, which has been a driving force behind her decades-long work championing Indigenous food sovereignty through agriculture, advocacy, and activism. We’re growing this for our people,” Schreiner affirms. “I

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

For more than four decades, the executive director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics (which she co-founded with Robert Swann in 1980) has been tending to a land-use movement in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, driven by innovative ideas for cultivating affordable access to farmland. HVS: Let’s start with the basics.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In one interview, a farmer told me that he had been offered $40,000 an acre for his land, money that would make him an instant millionaire. In fact, there have been a flurry of songs about farmland loss, and resistance to it, released over the last year. In it, farmland is turned into a subdivision, a sign of “progress.”

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The Equation

APRIL 27, 2023

From food to education, people of color have disproportionately faced a lack of access to all aspects of agriculture. Every sector of agriculture has been purposefully constructed to exclude and silence communities of color. Finding affordable land to work was challenging enough without the addition of working climate-unstable land.

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Ohio State University

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

AEDE faculty specializing in Agricultural Economics (Dr. OFBF staff discussed major initiatives that they have been engaged with including farmland preservation, the Farm Bill, the CAUV program, H2Ohio, and the Ohio Beginning Farmer Tax Credit Program among a few.

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Caff

AUGUST 5, 2024

The proposed development project, funded by billionaire tech interests, aimed to establish a new city in the middle of farmland, which if built, would have stressed limited water supplies and contributed to further sprawl on working lands.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

Missouri landowners, agricultural lenders, rural appraisers and others with firsthand knowledge of acreage transactions are invited to respond to the annual Missouri Farmland Value Opinion Survey. Respondents of the 2023 survey said they expected land prices to increase in 2024, particularly in the western region of Missouri.

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Tillable

MARCH 4, 2024

The narrative around farmland ownership is changing, with a common belief that investors , particularly those from overseas, are increasingly purchasing more US farmland from local farmers. We’ve turned to our agriculture intelligence platform to answer this question and understand the trends truly.

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Ohio State University

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A trio of researchers within the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics (AEDE) at Ohio State University— Ani Katchova (Professor and Farm Income Enhancement Chair), Carl Zulauf (Professor Emeritus), and Mujahidul Islam (PhD student)—continue to identify trends on the topic of agricultural land lost to development.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Until a few years ago, Songbird Farm in Unity, Maine, grew wheat, rye, oats, and corn, as well as an array of vegetables in three high tunnel greenhouses, and supported a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program for over 100 customers. While the affected sites are situated across the state, most are concentrated in agricultural areas.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 12, 2024

I’ve come to understand that despite where a farmer lives or what they grow, the lack of affordable land to farm is the number one reason farmers are leaving agriculture, the top challenge for current farmers and the primary barrier preventing aspiring farmers from getting started. Oregon agriculture is a part of my identity.

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DTN

MARCH 21, 2024

agriculture and ranching was released in February. The data also serves as a bellwether for the state of sustainability in agriculture. Cover crop acres increased to 18 million total acres, a 17% increase, but when compared to total farmland, this represents only 6% of 300 million acres.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Even on a compact farm like Small Axe, which spans only four acres — the national average is 446 acres — there was much to be done: crop rotations to plan, greenhouse doors to finish, a new shed to build. acre plot in central Seattle, where organizers host volunteer days, summer cookouts, and food and gardening classes.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Data shows farmland, number of farms decreased from 2017 to 2022 In the five-year span from 2017 to 2022, farms in the U.S. have gotten larger while the total number has gotten smaller, according to new Census of Agriculture data released by USDA last month. With a loss of nearly 142,000 farms, the number of U.S. In 2022, there were 1.2

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Over the next 15 years, California will have to repurpose about 1 million acres of cropland, most of it out of the 5.5 million irrigated acres in the San Joaquin Valley. At the time, he was the highest Black officer in the US Armed Forces, and California’s San Joaquin Valley was portrayed as an Eden for agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2023

Perhaps that image is informed by articles on “cheap” and abundant farmland in the far north or articles on how climate change opens opportunities by increasing the number of Alaska’s growing days. Agriculture Census reports that farming in Alaska is vibrant and expanding rapidly. The 2017 U.S. Often, Autry has to dissuade them.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

The catastrophic fire that just ravaged more than 2,000 acres and at least 2,000 homes on Maui, and claimed 114 lives and counting is inextricably linked to the island’s agricultural history. Maui’s last sugar mill, the 36,000-acre Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar, Co. (HC&S), How much land in Maui is currently fallow?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

agriculture currently faces some steep challenges. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo. As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important.

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