Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

They also face pressure from real estate development. We can leverage love for the land into strategies and policies that support right-sized farming, rural communities and the environment—which in turn helps us all. Too often, federal farm programs take a “one-size-fits-all” approach that simply doesn’t work for many farmers.

Agriculture 136

Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism Farmland 136

Agwired

JULY 21, 2023

There’s been a slight reduction in both sales volume and value growth within the ag real estate market. Those policy actions, combined with depleted consumer savings, tighter commercial bank lending standards and the persistently inverted yield curve are likely to result in a mild recession by the fourth quarter of 2023.

Real Estate 40

Real Estate Farmland Lodging Seeding 40

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. Imagination leads to affection, and affection yields fidelity.

Ruralism 117

Ruralism Farming Farming Agriculture 117

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

Plantation 121

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 121

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Improved cost-share accounting for income forgone when farmers experience losses in revenue due to production changes, anticipated reductions in yield, transitioning to an organic resource-conserving system, or acreage converted to conservation uses. Commodities and Crop Insurance Farming is a uniquely risky business.

Ruralism 111

Ruralism Food Farming Farming 111

National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

As the National Family Farm Coalition points out, “Focusing only on foreign ownership distracts from an overarching trend of rising corporate investment in farmland, largely driven by U.S-based This program has been long authorized but never funded in the farm bill process. 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503).

Food 40

Food Farming Farming Farmland 40

Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Tax Policy Changes Tax reforms, particularly around estate and capital gains taxes, could have huge implications for landowners and the future of the American family farm. Most major farm groups advocate for cooperative, voluntary programs over regulatory mandates when addressing environmental concerns.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 104