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American Farmland Trust Releases Bi-Lingual Land Transfer Training Curriculum: A Toolkit to Support Farm and Ranch Transfers

American Farmland

The post American Farmland Trust Releases Bi-Lingual Land Transfer Training Curriculum: A Toolkit to Support Farm and Ranch Transfers appeared first on American Farmland Trust.

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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.

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New Legislation Looks To Connect Farmland And Ranchland To Broadband

AgWeb Farm Journal

The Last Acre Act would help expand high-speed internet access across eligible farmland, ranchland and farm sites. At least 15% of farms and ranches have no access to the internet today.

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Can Point Reyes National Seashore Support Wildlife and Ranching Amid Climate Change?

Civil Eats

Half the largest herd—which lives in a 2,900-acre reserve with a fence that protects nearby ranches—died mostly due to insufficient forage. A spokeswoman said the Park Service will ultimately consider the effect of fence removal on the ranches and dairies in the new plan—but it has yet to provide that information.

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Why Are Family Farms in Trouble?

Modern Farmer

Eagle Rock Ranch. There are fewer farmers and less farmland, but due to consolidation, there has been an increase in income for the remaining farmers. A cattle ranch educates customers Eagle Rock Ranch was founded in 1868 by Louis Holst as a working cattle and hay operation. Eagle Rock Ranch. Erin Michalski.

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Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program Survey Found Threatened Agricultural Land Saved

American Farmland

Findings from an evaluation of the federal Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (FRPP), Analyzing the Lasting Impacts of the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program, show that the program fulfilled its statutory purpose and delivered outcomes that ensure a future for agriculture.

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The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem

Food Environment and Reporting Network

By the early 20 th century, decades of timber-cutting and overgrazing had left the ranching region in southern states barren, its nutrient-rich native grasses replaced by a motley assortment of plants that made poor forage. I visited Hamilton’s ranch in November 2022, where they run about 45 cows and 150 bison. The southeastern U.S.,

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