Food Tank

JANUARY 15, 2025

farmland will change hands over the next 15 years. Agrarian Trust supports community-led endeavors to steward this farmland in ways that are sustainable and equitable by partnering with local organizations. Farmland is most at-risk of being transitioned into a non-agricultural use when it is sold, according to American Farmland Trust.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Farmers Weekly Woodlands are the focus this week, with the farmland market quiet in terms of new launches. Recently launched in north Wales is almost 157 acres of mixed woodland just south of Abergele in Denbighshire. This has maturing conifer crops, mixed broadleaves with ancient woodland and good internal infrastructure.

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Marketing Farmland Acre Crop 264

NASDA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The purpose of this new policy is to lessen the loss of farmland caused by nuisance lawsuits which can arise when nonagricultural land uses expand into agricultural and forest areas,” NASDA CEO Ted McKinney said. The USDA Economic Research Service reports the number of farmers and acres of land in farms is on a downward trend.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 264

Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It is a mix of in-hand and mainly let farmland, residential, woodland, investment, development and sporting interests across about 1,844 acres on the edge of the North Pennines Area of […] The post Northern estate offers late-season investment opportunity appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Land Values: Here are five insights on what drives record-breaking sales — from the farm managers who’ve seen it all.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

Without farmland to grow crops or ranchland for livestock, we don’t eat. Conserving farmland underpins a stable local food supply. The ATF predicts that more than 300 million acres of farmland and ranch land could change ownership within the next two decades, with some of it transitioning out of agriculture use permanently.

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 15, 2025

Ag Water Stewardship: Decreasing farmland acres plus implementing more conservation practices results in smaller farmland footprint.

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Acre Farmland 97

Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A recent Prairie Farmer story prompted readers to ask whether the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the University of Illinois Foundation pay property taxes on the thousands of acres of farmland they own. Here’s a look.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JULY 12, 2024

Now available in nine states, advanced farmland intelligence platform generates instant valuations on more than 144 million acres of cropland. The post Growers Edge Expands RangeAg Farmland Valuation Tool to Four Additional States appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Last Acre Act would help expand high-speed internet access across eligible farmland, ranchland and farm sites. At least 15% of farms and ranches have no access to the internet today.

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Farmland Ranching Acre Farming 105

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The tribe only owns roughly 27,000 acres of its 120,000-acre reservation, after U.S. government actions directly or indirectly led its farmland to pass into non-Native hands— mostly white farmers. The Winnebago Tribe spent nearly $10,000 per acre, on average, to buy back 340 acres of ag land. So they lost it.”

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Farmland Acre Food Farming 127

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Unprecedented levels of rainfall led to rivers overtopping and flood defences being breached, leaving tens of thousands of acres of farmland […] The post Farmers count the cost of Storm Babet appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Maize Farmland Acre Crop 198

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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Farming Farming Farmland Food 249

Global Agtech Initiative

MAY 3, 2024

By becoming a part of Acres’ growing network, users can unlock rural land insights. The post Acres’ California Farmland Values: A Data-Driven Analysis – Telling the Story Behind the Numbers appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 20, 2024

Land Values: Here’s a look at farmers’ newest competition for acres.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

million acres enrolled in ARC and PLC, representing only 27 percent of all US farmland. Furthermore, to enroll in ARC or PLC, a farm must have base acres enrolled with USDAs Farm Service Agency (FSA), which administers the programs, as one of these covered commodities. million acres enrolled in ARC and PLC in 2023, 85.5

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Western FarmPress

JULY 18, 2023

Crop acres shifted according to the last USDA report, which has made farmers slow down on making purchasing decisions.

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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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ProAg

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A downturn in farmland prices has been reported by ag bankers in the Central Plains. In total, cropland values soared 33% since 2020, with a national average of $5,460 per acre. The report comes on the heels of a Missouri farmland sale last month that went for $34,800 per acre. Read more on farmland values here.

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Ohio State University

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Highlights of the most recent report are: Between 2001 and 2021, agricultural land in Ohio has declined by 268,430 acres or 2.04%. Franklin and Delaware Counties within the Columbus MSA lost the most agricultural land to development during the 21st Century: 13,170 and 9,547 acres, respectively.

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Agriculture Agriculture Acre Farmland 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials. Over two centuries, hundreds of thousands of acres were cleared to establish rice plantations, shaping the Southern economy and landscape.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The acreage is going down, too: There are about 879 million acres being farmed, down slightly from the 900 million acres growing crops or feeding animals in 2017. There are fewer farmers and less farmland, but due to consolidation, there has been an increase in income for the remaining farmers. And we replanted five acres.”

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Family Farming Farming Farming Ranching 94

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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; In the Delta, it is around 1 percent, and those farms cover, on average, less than 100 acres. today it is less than 2 percent.

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Acre Crop Farming Farming 103

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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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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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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ProAg

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Last year, analysts predicted 2023 would result in farmland prices finally tapering off or even declining. cropland was $5,460 per acre, 8% higher than in 2022. According to USDA data, pastureland values averaged $1,760 per acre, $110 higher than in 2022 and a whopping 66% increase since 2009. Read more on farmland values here.

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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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Farmland Real Estate Pasture Acre 59

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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Agriculture Agriculture Finance Farming 142

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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AgWeb Farm Journal

JULY 26, 2023

million acres of U.S. farmland could come to an end following a Senate vote this week. Roughly 37.6 ag land is foreign owned, according to USDA. However, select purchases of U.S.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Census reports 880 million acres of privately held farmland in the U.S., This is a loss of 20 million acres or nearly 7% of total farmland. At the same time that we are losing farmland, the remaining farms are continuing to consolidate and get larger.” down from 900 million in 2017. Or is there a better way?”

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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. According to USDA, foreign countries own 40.8

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Despite having nearly a billion acres of prime farmland and a population of only 330 million people, the U.S. agriculture system, often claimed to be able to feed the world, can no longer feed its own population. The number of U.S.

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ATTRA

MARCH 25, 2025

Between 2017 and 2022, Nebraska lost nearly 2,000 farms and 1 million acres of farmland. Among the report’s findings: subsidies received by farms mostly support production of crops that do not directly feed Nebraskans while food insecurity is rising in the state. However, farmers sold at least $16.6

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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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