Food Tank

JUNE 10, 2024

It finds that land ownership is being consolidated in the hands of a few powerful actors, squeezing out smaller farmers, pastoralists, Indigenous Peoples, and others who rely on traditional farmland. Expansion and encroachment are further contributing to the problem, as farmland is used for non-agricultural purposes, such as mining projects.

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Global Agtech Initiative

MAY 3, 2024

By becoming a part of Acres’ growing network, users can unlock rural land insights. The post Acres’ California Farmland Values: A Data-Driven Analysis – Telling the Story Behind the Numbers appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Despite a global economic slowdown, farmland prices remain on the rise. Over the past ten years, farmland prices have increased nearly 40 percent. trillion market in 2023, representing 83.6 farmland market is so strong and what factors are influencing its growth. Farmland Prices in 2023 In the U.S.

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NASDA

JANUARY 25, 2024

As the challenges for America’s farmers and ranchers continue to grow, we believe crop insurance as a safety net is only becoming more important to stability in rural America and a secure domestic food supply. USDA and Congress have taken extraordinary ad hoc measures over the past few years to ensure the financial security of rural America.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. The companies produce nitrate-rich wastewater and funnel it into open-air irrigation ditches that water the area’s farmland. About 15% of the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When farms are continually consolidated—when there is one 5,000-acre farm in a community, for example, instead of 50 100-acre farms—fewer people remain in rural areas. Recognizing the value of farmland and the fact that, as a popular phrase goes, “they’re not making any more land,” investors are buying up agricultural acreage.

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Tillable

MARCH 4, 2024

The narrative around farmland ownership is changing, with a common belief that investors , particularly those from overseas, are increasingly purchasing more US farmland from local farmers. Above is a chart illustrating the volume of farmland transactions from 2020 to the end of 2023 made by buyers residing more than 35 miles away.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 9, 2023

Educating visitors, preserving farmland, and sharing agricultural heritage were named the top three most important benefits—but there are so many more. The extra income can also help offset the unpredictability that often comes with commodity markets. Preserving Farmland Agricultural land is disappearing.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2023

Perhaps that image is informed by articles on “cheap” and abundant farmland in the far north or articles on how climate change opens opportunities by increasing the number of Alaska’s growing days. They expect land in Alaska to be cheaper, even close to major markets. Pierre puts it bluntly: “There is no cheap farmland in Alaska.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

APRIL 15, 2024

Farm safety net subsidies reward an industrial farming model that contributes to climate change, soil erosion, and farmland consolidation in agriculture. Despite its enormous price tag , increasing PLC reference prices to reflect recent peaks in the commodity market could primarily benefit as few as 6,000 farmers or 0.3

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

However, achieving this goal has become increasingly difficult in today’s competitive market. farmland that is rented or leased. At the same time, the number of farms and farmland in the U.S. During that same period, an estimated 20 million acres of farmland went out of production. has been in decline.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JULY 20, 2023

The bills that I am introducing today will help beginning farmers access land and develop markets for their products, two of the biggest issues I have heard during my Farm Bill listening sessions around the state. I will continue working to get them across the finish line and make this year’s Farm Bill as strong as possible.”

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Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

Under the New Deal Farm Bill, a farmer faced with low corn prices could switch to another crop or even idle a portion of farmland in exchange for financial support. Meanwhile, Black ownership of farmland has declined significantly, from 16–19 million acres in 1910 to fewer than 3 million today.

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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. Rural landowners enjoyed the benefits of their rising equity which served as a hedge against increasing inflation. Why Use a Farmland Ownership Loan? farmland is leased. Over half of U.S.

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Caff

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Prop 4 or the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, and Protecting Communities and Natural Lands from Climate Risks Bond is meant to address these significant threats to agricultural communities across the state, from urban to rural.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 15, 2024

In this article, we outline the impact of rising property taxes on agriculture and explain ways rural landowners can reduce their tax burden. More people were moving to Rural America than moving out. The farmland market is historically strong, and home values in agriculture-heavy states are rising rapidly.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. Each Monday, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

NSAC hopes that Congress can ultimately see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs through RCPP, as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate. It also removes the guiding purpose of ensuring farmland is usable by the next generation.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 3, 2024

agriculture, capturing as much as 95 percent of the market. farmland expected to transfer ownership in the next two decades, it’s a discussion that needs to be had sooner rather than later. farms has fallen below two million, with total farmland acres dropping to 880 million—the lowest since 1850.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 26, 2024

Choctaw Tribal Members Choctaw Fresh Tomika Bell (Choctaw Fresh Produce distribution manager): As Native Americans, we live in rural areas, which means we don’t have the ability to be near any kind of grocery stores or farm stands. We don’t have much access to a lot of good farmland.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 18, 2024

I think, especially for new and beginning farmers, it’s hard to start farming – especially if you don’t have that generational access to farmland,” said Lisa Buckner, education coordinator for the NFU. Most of the programming is done virtually, with limited, in-person time. “I Certainly, we are not solving that problem. population lives.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 26, 2024

Choctaw Tribal Members Choctaw Fresh Tomika Bell (Choctaw Fresh Produce distribution manager): As Native Americans, we live in rural areas, which means we don’t have the ability to be near any kind of grocery stores or farm stands. We don’t have much access to a lot of good farmland.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Modern Farmer , a a nonprofit covering equity and resiliency in the food system. The companies produce nitrate-rich wastewater and funnel it into open-air irrigation ditches that water the area’s farmland. About 15% of the U.S.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

We write to express our gratitude for your efforts to advance the 2024 farm bill within your jurisdictions and to seek your continued support for passing this critical legislation before the end of the year. If Congress does not come together this year to enact a bipartisan farm bill, the legislative process will begin anew in the 119th Congress.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2024

The testimonies presented during the hearing underscored the profound economic pressures and mental health strains experienced by farmers nationwide, which directly impact their ability to secure and maintain farmland. At the same time, it jeopardizes our country’s food security and threatens the vitality of our urban and rural communities.

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Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

The answers will help shape best practices for future projects, while addressing some concerns raised in ongoing debates over siting large solar projects in rural farm areas. A recent report from the American Farmland Trust says Ohio could lose more than 518,000 acres of farmland to urban sprawl by 2040.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The soil is dead, new markets need to be developed, and for now, she’s planning on continuing to run Three Part Harmony, which will involve a lot of driving back and forth. The market forces were pressuring them to get out of this work that we all love so deeply. At the same time, she’s transitioning the D.C.

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Tillable

JUNE 30, 2023

What Technology lessons can ag lenders learn from the home mortgage industry Although the home mortgage market and farmland mortgage market are very different, there are many things that ag lenders can learn from the home mortgage industry. In just five years, fintech companies grew their market share of mortgages by 33%.

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Tillable

MARCH 26, 2024

farmers and ranchers, the companies plan to streamline management and accessibility of datasets from multiple sources to deliver actionable insights and improve current capabilities for tracking farmland values and appraising properties. By combining CamoAg’s software platform with American AgCredit’s decades-long expertise working with U.S.

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Agwired

JULY 28, 2023

Celebrate marketing excellence by submitting your nominations for the NAMA Professional Development Awards by August 1. For more than 40 years, American Farmland Trust (AFT) has been helping preserve millions of farmland acres in the United States. Verdesian Life Sciences announced Clare Doyle as its new Chief Executive Officer.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That environmental focus that our generation has latched onto,” says their grandson Tom Walton, picking up the narration from his uncle in the marketing video posted by the Walton Family Foundation in 2018, “Sam and Helen taught us at an early age.” But alas, the country’s relationship with food is changing—and Walmart wants in.

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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. The Farmland for Farmers Act (S.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 7, 2024

Farmers face unique financial challenges, from fluctuating market prices to unpredictable weather conditions. Financial Health Check Tool Farm Loan Calculator AgAmerica’s free farm loan calculator helps rural landowners estimate their loan payments and determine the best financing options for their operations. Click the link below.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Twice a month, Catherine Withers heads to market two miles away in Bedminster, to sell her wares, much as her family have done for generations. Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners.

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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. That trend has continued into the first half of 2023 with fewer properties being offered for sale and market values that, while still strong, are dramatically off the pace seen in the first half of 2022.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When Albania emerged from Communist rule in 1990, collective farms were dismantled, heralding a move to a market economy. Until 1990, the system of collective farms in a country that had been able to utilise its abundant water to irrigate most farmland, meant Albania was self-sufficient in food.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I live outside of Boone, North Carolina, and have driven past many farms and witnessed firsthand the destruction of farmland and forests. Weve experienced nothing like this before, said New River Conservancy Executive Director Andrew Downs.This is due to fuel, pesticides, and sewage that has polluted the streams. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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