Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The marginalization of smaller-scale farms has severe consequences. 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. Small farms tend to be more diversified than large-scale operations.

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Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism Farmland 134

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.

Real Estate 52

Real Estate Farmland Lodging Seeding 52

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.

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Farmland Real Estate Supply Chain Agriculture 45

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.

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Marketing Farmland Distribution Real Estate 74

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. The land has been in our family since 1892, but the ownership hasn’t exactly been “linear.” I should mention that our farm was, and still is, a family farm in the strongest sense.

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Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 103

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

On May 1, 2024 – after months of stalled farm bill negotiations on both sides of Capitol Hill – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a detailed section-by-section summary of her farm bill proposal. Conservation and Climate The benefits of on-farm conservation programs are widespread.

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Ruralism Food Farming Farming 106