Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

He’s here, on this 100-degree August day, to show high school and college students—the future of the Winnebago Tribe—how Ho-Chunk Farms, the tribe’s farming company, is changing the face of agriculture on their reservation. The tribe only owns roughly 27,000 acres of its 120,000-acre reservation, after U.S. Ho-Chunk Inc.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Early in the summer of 2018, a nonprofit few Nebraskans have heard of bought a 22,613-acre chunk of land in Garden County. Box in Salt Lake City, picked up another 3,331 acres of county land, buying it from a Colorado investment company. The Mormon Church now owns about 370,000 total acres of zoned agricultural land in Nebraska.

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Ranching Real Estate Farmland Acre 111

Modern Farmer

MAY 28, 2024

“Of 400 farms in our county, only five are organic,” says Matt Fitzgerald of Fitzgerald Organics in Hutchinson, Minnesota. 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.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

acre community park located in Seattle’s Central District. A 2021 post from Black Star Farmers calling attention to the City of Seattle’s efforts to shut down the group’s farm in Jimi Hendrix Park. acre urban farm managed by the Black Yield Institute (BYI) on city-leased land, received an eviction notice in spring 2021.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Farm real estate will likely become a nearly $3.5 percent of total farm sector assets. farm sector, real estate accounts for $4 of every $5 in assets. That is what makes it such an important indicator of a farm’s resilience. The Farm Bill , a source of many agriculture policies in the U.S.,

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Armed with little more than ingenuity and entrepreneurial drive, microgreen growers are transforming the unused corners of their dwellings into profitable farming operations. After finishing college seven years ago, the “video gam- playing, beer-drinking kid” dusted off a section of his parents’ Long Island cellar to launch his micro farm.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

Nate Lewis and Melissa Barker knew that Oyster Bay Farm was for them. “It Situated in Olympia, Washington along the shores of Puget Sound, the fertile land and waterfront views make the farm an ideal spot. But real estate developers can afford it. It ticked all the boxes,” says Lewis. percent of the total US employment.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 7, 2023

Spivey, Zama, and Flores operate three of 10 different farm businesses at the Urban Farm Incubator at Watkins Regional Park in Prince George’s County, Maryland, located just outside of Washington, D.C. While lawmakers authorized $25 million annually in the 2018 Farm Bill, Congress must reallocate the money each year.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The song tells the story of a farmer who is approached by a real estate developer. He tells the overalls-clad farmer—a tired stereotype of America’s agrarians, even if my farming grandfather wore Liberty bibs every day for decades—that he builds houses and neighborhoods. My brother was right. No, the farmer says.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

On May 1, 2024 – after months of stalled farm bill negotiations on both sides of Capitol Hill – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a detailed section-by-section summary of her farm bill proposal. Strengthening the Farm and Food System Workforce (Sec. 11205, 12201).

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 1, 2024

“Young and beginner farmers who do not have the opportunity to participate in a family transition are especially challenged,” said Charlene Andersen, a farm and food lender with the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund. And the overlapping need for housing on or near the farm compounds search struggles.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MAY 7, 2021

An interesting fellow drove into the farm last week and caught me as I was coming back from moving the cows. He was a real estate developer working for a solar farm outfit. I'm going to put in tidbits of our conversation that I've not seen in newspaper articles because they help flesh out solar farm logistics.

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Buying farmland is like investing in gold—and farm property loans can help you do it. Keep reading to learn how you can leverage interest-only farm property loans to buy farmland and increase your profitability. Why Buy Farm Property? Agritourism – Generating income through farm festivals, tours, venue spaces, and more.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

David shares that one of the highlights of his career was leading an international consulting team in Beijing, China where his team created a 1,500 acre wholesale produce market and village masterplan. David hopes to see more innovation in urban agriculture in coming years. Credit: Arch Daily.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

farm real estate, valued at over $3 trillion in 2023, represents more than 80 percent of the total assets in the U.S. farm sector , making it a key resource that farmers can leverage to build a financially resilient operation. At the same time, the number of farms and farmland in the U.S. has been in decline.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

He grew up on a small farm in Marshall County, Tennessee, and lives in Memphis now. Enjoy our conversation about Wendell Berry, the fall of tobacco, and “right-sized” farming, below. Brooks Lamb on his family’s farm. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. We always had a big garden.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 17, 2023

When you’re thinking about applying for a farm loan, the process can be intimidating at first. As one of the leading lenders in the agricultural space, AgAmerica hears many overlapping questions from those seeking a farm loan, including: What are the requirements for a farm loan? How can I set myself up for success?

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As COVID-era funding runs out and input costs continue to rise, farm income is expected to fall 22 percent in 2023. Even so, it’s important to understand that farm liquidity remains strong and net farm income will still remain well above the 10-year average. billion to $140.4 In 2021 and 2022, farmland values increased.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

CONTENT SOURCED FROM THE WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL Written by: Dean Mosiman March 17, 2023 In a first for Madison and maybe the country, an investor group wants to create a new neighborhood centered on low-cost housing, farming, racial justice and wealth building. The group has already spent $4.9

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Agribusiness Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, assume the producer owns 500 acres of land outright and receives cash rent income of $300 per acre, net of real estate taxes, maintenance, etc. The upside to this plan comes in a year of high farm income – assume $305,000 of Schedule F income – where the contribution limit would be met.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Photo credit: Sanctuary Farms This month, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced more than $300 million in awards to 50 projects focused on increasing underserved farmers and ranchers’ access to land, markets, and capital. Summaries of all 50 projects are here.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

CONTENT SOURCED FROM BUILDER Written by: Symone Strong April 14, 2023 Meristem Communities' Clayton Garrett explains the idea behind Indigo, a community built around a human-scale working farm and pasture. Garrett: Meristem Communities is a Houston-based real estate development company that was established in 2021.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2023

She points to food forests—diverse, edible gardens that mirror natural ecosystems, free to harvest—as an example of innovation in soil-based urban farming that she’d like to further explore. That work has happened in community gardens and in urban farms. “We all deserve to have a piece of beautiful real estate and green space.”

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Tillable

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Whether you’re an ag lender, engaged in farmland real estate, or operating an agribusiness, the ability to identify and engage new customers is paramount. Operator Insights Delve into the intricacies of farm operators and their operations with our Operator Insights report.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. The farms mostly grow commoditiessoybeans, corn, cotton, and rice. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful.

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Tillable

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The original consumers of these data sets were commercial and residential real estate lenders and equipment and automotive finance companies. This data can help you understand operator personas, provide contact information, as well as provide insight into their operation, i.e.: how big are they, where and what do they farm?

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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Agribusiness Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In return, the heirs are not allowed to step-up the basis in the farmland for this reduction; the family is required to farm the land for 10 years after death; and the IRS will file a lien on the farmland. Here is an example of how this may work: Bill and Mary own 2,000 acres of land in Iowa.

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Agribusiness Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

If the heirs face a taxable estate, they have two options: Pay the estate tax and get a step-up in basis, or Elect Section 2032A on the farmland and get a reduction in the basis (save 40% now and pay 30% or more when sold). The Section 2032A value is based upon average comparable rents in the area less applicable real estate taxes.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Meanwhile, settlers cut down chestnuts for many reasons — to clear space for towns and farms; to build fence posts, telegraph poles, and railroads; or just to gather the nuts more easily. This particular case centered around whether tribes had to pay local and state taxes on ancestral land that they bought back on the real estate market.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Surrounded by low-income apartments, senior housing, and the cheerful hum of an elementary school playground, We Grow Farms is an unlikely yet central landmark in West Sacramento. Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This marks the latest step in the ongoing process of shaping the next Farm Bill. While we now know that the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 will not receive committee or floor consideration, the proposal provides a clear mile marker against which to measure future phases of this long and ongoing Farm Bill discussion.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 25, 2024

The lake once spilled its water into the Everglades, but, beginning in the early twentieth century, a dike was built along its southern shore to protect local farms. A sprawling reservoir, built south of Lake Okeechobee, could store (and clean) some water before it was sent on to farms and cities and to Everglades National Park.

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