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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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The garden, atop a building near the Denver Coliseum, was purpose-built for Bousselot’s brand of research in an up-and-coming scientific field: rooftop farming. You don’t have to set this up as a dichotomy between urban and rural, really,” says Bousselot. Urban farms attract a host of pollinators like bees, McDougall has found.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The song tells the story of a farmer who is approached by a real estate developer. He tells the overalls-clad farmer—a tired stereotype of America’s agrarians, even if my farming grandfather wore Liberty bibs every day for decades—that he builds houses and neighborhoods. My brother was right. No, the farmer says.

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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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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Then, two years later, it added still more land in this rural Nebraska county tucked between Chimney Rock and Lake McConaughy. religious organizations don’t have to publicly report their income or assets, including real estate. million acres of American real estate the Mormon church is now estimated to own.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

farm real estate, valued at over $3 trillion in 2023, represents more than 80 percent of the total assets in the U.S. farm sector , making it a key resource that farmers can leverage to build a financially resilient operation. At the same time, the number of farms and farmland in the U.S. has been in decline.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. He grew up on a small farm in Marshall County, Tennessee, and lives in Memphis now. Enjoy our conversation about Wendell Berry, the fall of tobacco, and “right-sized” farming, below. Brooks Lamb on his family’s farm.

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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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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 28, 2024

farmland market trends directly affect the equity and borrowing power of rural landowners. have increased by 5 percent for total farm real estate, with an increase of 4.7 As agricultural land values continue to rise in 2024, farmers and ranchers are navigating a landscape marked by both opportunity and risk.

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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. Rural landowners enjoyed the benefits of their rising equity which served as a hedge against increasing inflation.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 28, 2025

Landwise Analytica delivers land-suitability reports to farmers, real estate agents, insurance providers, and mortgage lenders in the agriculture sector. 8 Numanac is building the AI-powered command center for farming, uniting semantic search and agentic solutions to deliver actionable insights and simplify farm management.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As COVID-era funding runs out and input costs continue to rise, farm income is expected to fall 22 percent in 2023. Even so, it’s important to understand that farm liquidity remains strong and net farm income will still remain well above the 10-year average. billion to $140.4 in the Corn Belt.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 17, 2023

When you’re thinking about applying for a farm loan, the process can be intimidating at first. As one of the leading lenders in the agricultural space, AgAmerica hears many overlapping questions from those seeking a farm loan, including: What are the requirements for a farm loan? How can I set myself up for success?

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National Young Farmers Coalition

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In August, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA), under the leadership of Secretary Vilsack and FSA Administrator Zach Ducheneaux, published a final rule in the Federal Register that includes a variety of updates to the FSA Farm Loan Programs (FLP) regulations.

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The Equation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

These farmers span generations and work farms from Texas to South Carolina, and they’ve gathered to talk about the issues facing them. Heirs’ property affects homes as well as farms, but it was a new issue for me. In other cases, they couldn’t afford an attorney to create a will and handle their estate.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

Photo credit: Sanctuary Farms This month, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced more than $300 million in awards to 50 projects focused on increasing underserved farmers and ranchers’ access to land, markets, and capital. Summaries of all 50 projects are here.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

Unfavorable weather, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, avian influenza and a host of other factors resulted in high commodity prices, high farm production costs and high consumer food price inflation in 2022. Higher fertilizer, fuel and feed costs contributed to a sharp increase in farm production expenses in 2022.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 recently passed by the House Agriculture Committee does not serve the new generation of farmers and ranchers in this country. But first, let’s break down all the red, green, and yellow flags included in the first draft. based multinational corporations, private equity firms, and pension funds.

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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.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This is where a revolving line of credit becomes an indispensable tool for agricultural operations, offering the flexibility needed to navigate the ups and downs of farming. In addition, RLOCs are essentially a way to finance your Colorado farm’s expenses until you sell your crop, livestock, or product.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The hearing covered various topics, including the lack of data on farmland tenure, foreign ownership of farmland, and rising land values driven by non-farming buyers. The Issue of corporate ownership of farmland and farm consolidation is very, very important. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) With approximately 40% of U.S.

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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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National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 was recently introduced by U.S. This marks the latest step in the ongoing process of shaping the next Farm Bill. This bill builds on the framework she shared earlier this year, with even more concrete proposals aimed at boosting rural communities and supporting farmers.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Surrounded by low-income apartments, senior housing, and the cheerful hum of an elementary school playground, We Grow Farms is an unlikely yet central landmark in West Sacramento. Leased through the West Sacramento Urban Farm Program , the regenerative urban oasis attracts nearby residents, students, and plenty of honeybees.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The precarious future of the 2024 presidential election and the next farm bill has many operators in wait-and-see mode. 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. While a majority of U.S. Kennedy Jr.,

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