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Holding onto Farmland, One Land Trust at a Time

Modern Farmer

Without farmland to grow crops or ranchland for livestock, we don’t eat. Conserving farmland underpins a stable local food supply. The ATF predicts that more than 300 million acres of farmland and ranch land could change ownership within the next two decades, with some of it transitioning out of agriculture use permanently. (A

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How the Next Generation of Farmers is Getting Creative with Land Access

Modern Farmer

Whenever issues arise, such as the roaming habits of free-range chickens, they all sit down “as humans” to talk them through and come to a solution together. Investing in Real Estate as a Means to Farm Jamie and Doug Wickler were engineers, but the 2008 crash made them reconsider career paths.