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The Business Behind the Farm Visit

Modern Farmer

The immense counterweight to all of these restrictions is that land use laws are in place for a reason: to protect the integrity of farmland. Across the country, millions of acres of farmland have been lost over the last 30 years, due to development and other forms of land conversion. And we’re not alone.”

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Industry Ag News 7/21

Agwired

This year’s event was held at Montana Farmers Union’s Arrowpeak Lodge in Highwood, MT. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced bipartisan legislation to increase transparency and oversight of foreign ownership in the American agricultural industry.

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Rewilding: Threat or promise for hill farming?

Sustainable Food Trust

First, rewilding hill farmland might not always deliver unqualified wins for biodiversity. When it comes to impacts on the upland environment, rewilding clearly offers enormous potential. However, two points of caution are worth making.

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