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Finding Farmland For Your Farm

Farmbrite

Finding the best farmland for your new farm involves several key steps to ensure you choose a location that meets your needs and goals. In this article, we're going to cover some ways to find farmland, questions to ask when at a potential farm location, and other tips and tricks.

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Holding onto Farmland, One Land Trust at a Time

Modern Farmer

Situated in Olympia, Washington along the shores of Puget Sound, the fertile land and waterfront views make the farm an ideal spot. Without farmland to grow crops or ranchland for livestock, we don’t eat. Conserving farmland underpins a stable local food supply. But real estate developers can afford it.

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These Nebraska Tribes Are Buying Back Farmland and Attempting to Reverse History

Modern Farmer

government actions directly or indirectly led its farmland to pass into non-Native hands— mostly white farmers. In the past five years, three Nebraska tribes—the Winnebago, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska—have bought a combined 3,000-odd acres of farmland that was once theirs.

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Navigating Agricultural Financing as a Farmer: Challenges and Opportunities

Farmbrite

Agri-Real Estate Loans These loans allow borrowers to use the value of their land as collateral. Ag Equity Line of Credit (AELOC) This line of credit is secured by the equity in the farmland rather than your inventory. Real Estate Land Loans These loans can be used to purchase farmland or invest in property improvements.

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

Daily Yonder

Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. Since we had land—and we also had a good relationship with the local Farmer’s Cooperative, which generously donated seeds, plants, and fertilizer—a garden felt like a good way to support the community.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. I was young, I was in my 20s. Theres hardly any of us left.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Theyre as fertile as can be. 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. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.; Thats not what happened along the Mississippi.

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