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Industry Ag News 7/21

Agwired

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.

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Opinion: In American Agriculture, Size Matters

Modern Farmer

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.

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Q&A: Why Do Small-Scale Farmers Persist in Place?

Daily Yonder

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.

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A Deep Dive on the Senate’s Farm Bill Proposal: the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

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.

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