AgWeb Farm Journal

JANUARY 18, 2024

New non-real estate farm lending activity at commercial banks continued to decline in the fourth quarter, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

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Agribusiness Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

Chart 1 shows the rate of change for farm loans outstanding at banks. During 2019-2021 farm loans showed a negative rate of change. Real estate loans were up about 5% in the latest reading while operating and equipment loans were about flat. The percent of farm loans in this status sits at about 1.5%.

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

WAC represents a large and diverse cross-section of the nations broad business community, including the construction, transportation, real estate, recreation, mining, manufacturing, forestry, agriculture, energy, wildlife conservation, and public health and safety sectors.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 26, 2024

Land Sales: Preliminary results of annual farm real estate survey in Nebraska show an increase in land values, but the rate of increase has slowed considerably.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Our recent article about soaring farm interest expenses generated a lot of great questions about interest rates and expenses. farm debt is real estate that has the benefit of long repayment terms and fixed interest rates. All Loans The first consideration is the interest expense across all debt in the farm economy.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

JUNE 24, 2024

Farm interest rates in 2023 and early 2024 reached the highest level since 2006 to 2008 (Figure 1). Average Interest Rate on Ag Operating and Real Estate Loans, 1991Q1 to 2024Q1. Farm Interest Rate Spread: Operating Loans Less Machinery Loans. Farm Interest Rate Spread: Operating Loans Less Real Estate Loans.

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American Farmland

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In 2022, AFT’s Farms Under Threat research indicated that Texas has the highest concentration of threatened agricultural land in America – with 2.2 million acres projected to be converted to real estate development by 2040.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 4, 2023

But instead of reams of paper pressed and cut, this warehouse is home to Area 2 Farms , which now pumps out greens, herbs and root vegetables. Potter, along with Tyler Baras, helped co-found the farm in Arlington, VA, where office vacancy rates reached 23.7 But there are other options for these empty offices — such as farms.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

We spent last week updating and creating several charts to summarize and break down the USDA’s latest farm financial data. There are always a few surprises , such as nonreal estate debts in 2022 jumping higher while real estate debt slowed. For another perspective, inflation-adjusted net farm income averaged $161.9b

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

Check out our companion piece: How to Start a Backyard or Urban Farm—Whether You Own Land or Not As a renter millennial, I wanted to start farming. This is a common sentiment among many student-loan-saddled millennials and Gen Z-ers who want to work with the land but don’t have land that they own to start gardening or farming.

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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.

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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. The next farm bill can fix this. with farmer Michelle Week of Good Rain Farm really impacted me.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Compared to a local non-Native rancher who could leverage her owned land and secure a bank loan quickly to purchase that real estate, Brewer needed to put up her livestock, machinery, and other material assets as collateral since her family doesn’t own all their land—and it took weeks to assess. “I Simultaneously, the U.S.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Farm real estate will likely become a nearly $3.5 percent of total farm sector assets. farm sector, real estate accounts for $4 of every $5 in assets. That is what makes it such an important indicator of a farm’s resilience. The Farm Bill , a source of many agriculture policies in the U.S.,

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. The farms mostly grow commoditiessoybeans, corn, cotton, and rice. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful.

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Tillable

JULY 8, 2024

Our ag-specific dataset supports sales and marketing for ag lenders, agribusinesses, and real estate brokers. Recently Added Farm Sales: The farm sales that were added by your organization last week. This digest includes: Upcoming Auctions: Auctions occurring in the next two weeks.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Treasuries to turn negative as those nominal rates are lower than what any individual or farm can borrow. For 2023, preliminary data reveal the real Prime Rate at 3.2%. In 2021, real rates were -1.4% In 1975, real rates were -1.29% from a combination of the Prime Rate at 7.85% and inflation at 9.14%. and -3.14%.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A 2021 post from Black Star Farmers calling attention to the City of Seattle’s efforts to shut down the group’s farm in Jimi Hendrix Park. Henderson had hoped that the farm would be able to provide consistent yields of food to donate to local organizations for further dissemination to members of the community.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Armed with little more than ingenuity and entrepreneurial drive, microgreen growers are transforming the unused corners of their dwellings into profitable farming operations. After finishing college seven years ago, the “video gam- playing, beer-drinking kid” dusted off a section of his parents’ Long Island cellar to launch his micro farm.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Recent statistics on American agriculture reveal a decline of 200,000 farms between 2007 and 2022. million farms —to 2 million from 6.8 The marginalization of smaller-scale farms has severe consequences. It’s even worse when the owners of large-scale farms don’t live in or meaningfully contribute to the community.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 7, 2023

Spivey, Zama, and Flores operate three of 10 different farm businesses at the Urban Farm Incubator at Watkins Regional Park in Prince George’s County, Maryland, located just outside of Washington, D.C. While lawmakers authorized $25 million annually in the 2018 Farm Bill, Congress must reallocate the money each year.

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AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

AgriLife Extension program provides pond-related information and considerations for real estate agents and those in the market to buy The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will present the webinar “Sizing Up a Pond On a Property” March 6 from noon to 1:30 p.m.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 31, 2023

Learn more about the five Cs of credit lenders use to evaluate your farm loan application. The five Cs of credit is a common technique lenders use to evaluate your farm loan application and include character, capital, capacity, collateral, and conditions. Collateral : Pledged real estate asset used to secure the loan.

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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. Luckily, more avenues for funding exist.

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Agribusiness Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Kansas City Federal Reserve release an article late in November titled “Farm Loan Interest Rates Rise Sharply “ This is a third quarter survey of farm banks across their region. 2021 farm loan interest rates were the lowest in likely the last 50 years or more. Operating loans were likely 4.5% up to 6%-6.7%

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

religious organizations don’t have to publicly report their income or assets, including real estate. An early 2020 nationwide analysis of real estate holdings connected to the Mormon church by Truth and Transparency found approximately 365,000 acres of land zoned for agriculture in Nebraska. real estate.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

Nate Lewis and Melissa Barker knew that Oyster Bay Farm was for them. “It Situated in Olympia, Washington along the shores of Puget Sound, the fertile land and waterfront views make the farm an ideal spot. But real estate developers can afford it. It ticked all the boxes,” says Lewis. percent of the total US employment.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

JUNE 19, 2023

This week we are stepping back to provide some context, especially pertaining to the farm economy. Figure 2 plots the average fixed interest rate on farm real estate loans since 1991. While farm real estate loans briefly exceeded 6% in 2018, the last time they exceeded 7% was in 2008.

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Agribusiness Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2021

This is likely true for non-operating assets such as stocks, bonds, and perhaps real estate. However, what happens if a farmer has placed farm operating assets into a grantor trust or more likely has sold a farm to an intentionally defective grantor trust. Does this become a gift?

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 1, 2024

“Young and beginner farmers who do not have the opportunity to participate in a family transition are especially challenged,” said Charlene Andersen, a farm and food lender with the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund. And the overlapping need for housing on or near the farm compounds search struggles.

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Agribusiness Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

However, many of them also plan on deferring the gain into other real estate using a tax-deferred exchange under Section 1031. However, if the farmer sells land with Section 1245 real property and purchases real estate with no Section 1245 real property, then the gain will be fully realized and cannot be deferred.

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The Lunatic Farmer

MAY 7, 2021

An interesting fellow drove into the farm last week and caught me as I was coming back from moving the cows. He was a real estate developer working for a solar farm outfit. I'm going to put in tidbits of our conversation that I've not seen in newspaper articles because they help flesh out solar farm logistics.

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Agribusiness Blog

AUGUST 30, 2022

Expectations for future farm income remains strong, however, the expected net income over these months are less than the expectations from the last three quarters. Farm loan repayments and farm loan demand remains in good shape, however, the expectations on these have shifted down from previous quarters.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 15, 2024

In this blog post, we'll explore what financing looks like for both lenders and agricultural producers and the steps to help you as a farmer find financing and other funding for your farm. Types of Agricultural Financing for Farmers Farm financing comes in various forms to support agricultural operations.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

He’s here, on this 100-degree August day, to show high school and college students—the future of the Winnebago Tribe—how Ho-Chunk Farms, the tribe’s farming company, is changing the face of agriculture on their reservation. We want to start farming our own reservation. We want to own our reservation again,” LaPointe said.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Originally published: July 15, 2021 Updated on: January 11, 2023 by Niko Simos and Sarah Jordan In recent months, the vertical farming industry has been going through a correction period. We have seen high-profile farm closures and significant layoffs , leading many to wonder if there is truly a future for vertical farming.

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Trimble Agriculture

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Owning farmland is becoming increasingly competitive, but not entirely out of reach with the help of a custom farm ownership loan. farm real estate values have increased nearly 40 percent. When structured correctly, farm ownership loans can provide a path to purchase that gives the farmer greater autonomy over their land.

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