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A More Resilient Future for Texas Agriculture

American Farmland

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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Five Factors Driving Farmland Prices in 2023 

Trimble Agriculture

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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Opinion: Farmers Are Dropping Out Because They Can’t Access Land. Here’s How the Next Farm Bill Could Stop the Bleeding.

Modern Farmer

America’s farmers, especially beginning and Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) farmers face insurmountable challenges, yet 87 percent of young farmers are dedicated to regenerative, climate-smart farming practices. The next farm bill can fix this. with farmer Michelle Week of Good Rain Farm really impacted me.

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Who’s Buying Nebraska? After Shopping Spree, Mormon Church Is Top Land Purchaser

Daily Yonder

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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We Need Regenerative Agriculture, But How Can Farmers Fund the Transition?

Modern Farmer

“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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These Nebraska Tribes Are Buying Back Farmland and Attempting to Reverse History

Modern Farmer

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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Opinion: In American Agriculture, Size Matters

Modern Farmer

Recent statistics on American agriculture reveal a decline of 200,000 farms between 2007 and 2022. million farms —to 2 million from 6.8 The marginalization of smaller-scale farms has severe consequences. It’s even worse when the owners of large-scale farms don’t live in or meaningfully contribute to the community.