Modern Farmer
MARCH 12, 2024
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. Across the country, farmland is being lost to development at a rate of more than 2,000 acres per day.
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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
JULY 28, 2023
In addition, over the last decade, farmland prices have doubled nationwide and risen far higher in areas with pressure due to real estate development or commodity prices. Today, just 1% of farmers in the United States identify as Black. This round of awards is the first-time funds have been distributed through the LCM program.
National Young Farmers Coalition
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
The hearing covered various topics, including the lack of data on farmland tenure, foreign ownership of farmland, and rising land values driven by non-farming buyers. The Issue of corporate ownership of farmland and farm consolidation is very, very important. The Farmland for Farmers Act (S.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
It’s even worse when the owners of large-scale farms don’t live in or meaningfully contribute to the community. 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. They also face pressure from real estate development.
Modern Farmer
MAY 28, 2024
“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.
Daily Yonder
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. He grew up on a small farm in Marshall County, Tennessee, and lives in Memphis now. I should mention that our farm was, and still is, a family farm in the strongest sense. A childhood photo from the family farm.
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