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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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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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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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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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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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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SILT

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Story County Supports Farmland Preservation Initiative Story County Board of Supervisors Approves Resolution of Support for Circle Our Cities Initiative West Branch, IA — The Story County Board of Supervisors has approved a resolution in support of the Circle Our Cities initiative from the nonprofit Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT).

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

million (down 7% from 2017) Average size: 463 acres (up 5%) Total farmland: 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%), accounting for 39% of all U.S. Percent of farmland used for oilseeds or grains: 32% Percent of farmland used for beef cattle: 40% Average age of farmers: 58.1 (up

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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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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 weighted the measure by acres transacted rather than the number of transactions, recognizing certain limitations in our approach.

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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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Western FarmPress

MARCH 20, 2024

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

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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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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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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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ATTRA

DECEMBER 11, 2023

American Farmland Trust (AFT) announced a new “Land Transfer Navigators” program in partnership with USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services (USDA NRCS) that will help exiting farmers and landowners retire with confidence and help new, beginning, and underserved farmers gain secure, equitable land access.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Two weeks after moving into their dream homestead on 40 acres, they learned that the surrounding 3,200 acres and another 5,000 acres just down the road were leased for solar farms. Folks, this is prime Indiana farmland. What would you do if your homestead were suddenly surrounded by 8,000 acres of solar farm?

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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. In 2021, the USDA listed the average value for an acre of farmland in California at $13,860. The 2017 U.S. In Florida, it’s $7,300.

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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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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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Tillable

OCTOBER 14, 2024

With nearly 32 million acres impacted and over 700,000 landowners affected, the devastation has been profound, particularly for those growing high-value crops like cotton, corn, and soybeans. As agricultural professionals and landowners begin to assess the damage, it’s clear that recovery will take time and significant resources.

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