Modern Farmer

MARCH 12, 2024

Today’s beginning farmers are passionate about growing nourishing foods, diversified crops and building soil; yet because of astronomical real estate costs, most farmers are unable to purchase land on which to operate. Across the country, farmland is being lost to development at a rate of more than 2,000 acres per day.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Investing in Real Estate as a Means to Farm Jamie and Doug Wickler were engineers, but the 2008 crash made them reconsider career paths. They had bought their home in 2013, and they secured their first rental property in 2017 (when real estate was more affordable) with help from family and friends.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 28, 2024

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. I n the first year, the farm grew yellow peas as a transition crop and had a hail event that wasn’t covered by crop insurance in Minnesota.

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Agriculture Agriculture Acre Farming 129

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Background Land access is one of the biggest challenges for young and beginning farmers all across the country – whether small-scale dairy farmers in New England, livestock and grain producers in the Midwest, or specialty crop producers across the South. Today, just 1% of farmers in the United States identify as Black.

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Agribusiness Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Farm real estate loans saw rates go from about 4-4.5% The Dallas region sees the highest rates (which makes sense due to more risk with weather and crops in that area), while the Chicago region sees the lowest rates (again due to better weather and soil in that region). up to 6%-6.7% in the third quarter.

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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. People sometimes refer to farmland as an investment in gold, plus a coupon,” says Bruce Sherrick, professor at the University of Illinois. Cash Rental and Crop Share – Generating income by renting your land to other farmers for planting.

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Agwired

JULY 21, 2023

There’s been a slight reduction in both sales volume and value growth within the ag real estate market. Farmers National Company has released its mid-year land values report with some interesting findings.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 15, 2024

Agri-Real Estate Loans These loans allow borrowers to use the value of their land as collateral. Ag Equity Line of Credit (AELOC) This line of credit is secured by the equity in the farmland rather than your inventory. Real Estate Land Loans These loans can be used to purchase farmland or invest in property improvements.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

RWR sought the funds to kickstart a plan to drill deep wells on a ranch it owns in the San Luis Valley farther south, home to the nation’s second-largest potato crop. The commercial real estate investor added that he thinks water districts need to look closely at opportunities to develop new water supplies. “I

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. For a long time – until production controls were lifted in the mid-2000s – tobacco was a critical crop for smaller-scale farmers. A crop that was pivotal to many small-scale farming communities across the South and elsewhere went away.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

As it reads now, the bill fails to prioritize equitable farmland access, divests from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and strikes climate provisions that would assist farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for extreme weather events. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

improving irrigation efficiency, restoring pasture, cover cropping, or nutrient and pest management). Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) mandatory funding is increased from $80 million to $130 million per year. Conservation practices eligible for EQIP include structural, vegetative, and management practices (e.g.,

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 17, 2023

– Farmers, ranchers, rural landowners, farm real estate investors, and recreation and timber landowners. A strong farm business plan should include a description of the farming operation, including the type of crops or livestock, the size of the farm, and the markets served. Who Can Apply?

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

It will preserve farmland and grow food to feed people. The project’s planners, Bt Farms Foundation , is a diverse team led by Black women with expertise in design, landscape architecture and urban planning, urban agriculture, ecology, geography, real estate, finance and engineering.

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Farming Farming Acre Real Estate 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

World Wildlife Fund, an organization with a longstanding interest in how agriculture affects the planet, is pushing one idea it thinks would benefit not just the Delta but the country as a whole: Delta farmers could start growing more food that people actually eatspecialty crops, such as fruits, vegetables, and other high-value foods.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Coalition worked with partners and Senators to introduce bi-partisan legislation to direct FSA to establish a pre-approval and pre-qualification pilot program for Direct Farmland Ownership loans this Fall, the Farm Ownership Improvement Act (S. The approach to addressing speculative ownership of farmland misses the mark.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

After six years of enriching the soil and cultivating neighborly relationships, however, We Grow Farms is up against an insurmountable challenge facing many farms and pastures across the state: the real estate market. Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country.

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Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 145

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 25, 2024

The Everglades Foundation was formed in the 1990s by two wealthy fishing buddies—billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II and an Orlando real estate developer named George Barley. You’re unlikely to come up with the domain of Big Sugar: the Everglades Agricultural Area, that 700,000-acre swath of farmland just south of Lake Okeechobee.

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