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. This year’s event was held at Montana Farmers Union’s Arrowpeak Lodge in Highwood, MT.
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. I grow small-scale herbs, seeds and nursery starts in my backyard garden and work in the nonprofit agriculture world.
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Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
They also face pressure from real estate development. Brooks grew up on a small family farm in rural Tennessee. The little farmers can’t keep up with the big ones.” Brooks Lamb. Photo courtesy of Regan Adolph) It isn’t just consolidation threatening these small and midsized farmers. Press, 2023).
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.
National Young Farmers Coalition
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
“Whether it’s Bill Gates’ buy-up of farmland or foreign speculative investments in rural America, the common denominator driving farmland consolidation is the corporate structures underpinning these land grabs.
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.
Daily Yonder
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
I should mention that our farm was, and still is, a family farm in the strongest sense. A childhood photo from the family farm. The first is farmland loss from haphazard real estate development, the kind that leads to rural gentrification. We tended the land, crops, and animals together.
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