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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

PLC triggers payments if the market price for a crop drops below a reference price that is established in statute, per eligible crop. The stated intention of both programs is to stabilize farm income and support agricultural producers facing the financial risks of volatile markets. million acres enrolled in ARC and PLC in 2023, 85.5

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Tillable

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

6 Trends Reshaping the Agricultural Market (and How Data Can Help You Stay Ahead) In agriculture, the 80/20 rule is more relevant than ever —the top 20% of producers control the vast majority of resources and influence. The reality is that consolidation and growth are accelerating in the agricultural market.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The farmland market is an important indicator of an operation’s financial strength. For farmers who own their land, farmland makes up more than 80 percent of their total assets. Historically, farm values have held steady in the face of economic turbulence, making them an effective risk management tool during market fluctuation.

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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. In 2021 and 2022, farmland values increased.

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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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Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

A farm stop sells food on consignment from nearby small and medium farms, landing it somewhere between a grocery store, a farmers’ market, and a food hub. They are also distinct from a farmers’ market, which requires farmers to either be there for sales or hire someone to sell for them. percent, from 434 acres to 463 acres.

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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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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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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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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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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. Lotus Foods primarily works with farmers overseas, but teamed up with Mason to work on bringing Jubilee Justice rice to market.

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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. She has over a decade of experience in food and agriculture policy reform and market development. 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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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. trillion market in 2023, representing 83.6 farmland market is so strong and what factors are influencing its growth. Farmland Prices in 2023 In the U.S.

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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. Overall, the most recent reports show that farmland values have continued higher.

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ProAg

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Last year, analysts predicted 2023 would result in farmland prices finally tapering off or even declining. While the prediction has not come to fruition, the land market shows resiliency. cropland was $5,460 per acre, 8% higher than in 2022. Read more on farmland values here.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

MAY 1, 2023

First, the farm economy derailed as commodity prices tumbled, resulting in fewer earnings generated by an acre of farmland. Then a wave of farm failures and bankruptcies flooded the market with land for sale. Farmland Value Trends Figure 1 shows the value of average-quality Indiana farmland from 1975-2005.

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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. Today, just 1% of farmers in the United States identify as Black.

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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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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. They expect land in Alaska to be cheaper, even close to major markets. Pierre puts it bluntly: “There is no cheap farmland in Alaska.”

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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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Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

2023 Report Agriculture Highlights By The Numbers ● Denali’s recycling efforts produced enough natural fertilizer to support more than 100,000 acres of farmland and manufactured enough animal feed to nourish over 40,000 cattle across five states. The report also notes the company collected 1.7

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A typical farmer can pull out a file of papers and start ticking off the various environmental elements that pay him: a woodpecker nest, $1,000; a goose nest by the creek, $1,000; a two-acre hillside abandoned to wildflowers, $5,000; a tree with squirrel nests in it, $2,000. You can find wild hog, for example, in the grocery store.

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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. You’ll have to ask Farmland Reserve Inc.,” Farmland Reserve Inc.,

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the key points are: The National Farmers Union has supported the ethanol industry as it has helped farmers maintain a stronger market and has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation industry. about 300,000 acres from 2002 to 2014. Ethanol represents about ⅓ of the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. But unlike neighboring farms that focus on production for faraway markets or keep a single family afloat, the farm at Kiawah River is supporting 185 families who live in the surrounding homes.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 12, 2024

In June 2023, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the awardees of the $300-million Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access Program, which included 50 community-based projects for underserved farmers, ranchers and forest landowners. Over the next 20 years, nearly half of US farmland is expected to change hands.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When farms are continually consolidated—when there is one 5,000-acre farm in a community, for example, instead of 50 100-acre farms—fewer people remain in rural areas. Recognizing the value of farmland and the fact that, as a popular phrase goes, “they’re not making any more land,” investors are buying up agricultural acreage.

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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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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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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A range of issues plague the current system, including corporate consolidation , farmland concentration in the hands of non-farmers and foreign buyers , pollution and animal welfare issues , as well as soil erosion and the poor treatment of migrant workers.

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American Farmland

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

acre market garden farm that supports people with disabilities work together to grow healthy food, beautiful flowers, and build lasting friendships. Learn how farm grant is helping Common Roots Farm, a 4.5-acre

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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

Under the New Deal Farm Bill, a farmer faced with low corn prices could switch to another crop or even idle a portion of farmland in exchange for financial support. Meanwhile, Black ownership of farmland has declined significantly, from 16–19 million acres in 1910 to fewer than 3 million today.

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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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Ohio State University

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A variety of topics were discussed such as Ohio farm finances, farm labor, the upcoming farm bill, commodity markets, and livestock production. Chen-Ti Chen) discussed their current research and outreach projects that are of interest to the Ohio Farm Bureau.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 9, 2023

Educating visitors, preserving farmland, and sharing agricultural heritage were named the top three most important benefits—but there are so many more. The extra income can also help offset the unpredictability that often comes with commodity markets. Preserving Farmland Agricultural land is disappearing.

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