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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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Who’s Buying Nebraska? After Shopping Spree, Mormon Church Is Top Land Purchaser

Daily Yonder

You’ll have to ask Farmland Reserve Inc.,” Farmland Reserve Inc., a nonprofit owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon church, has been quietly buying up ranch land in Nebraska’s Sandhills for the past three decades. Farmland Reserve Inc. Farmland Reserve Inc.

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Five Factors Driving Farmland Prices in 2023 

Trimble Agriculture

Despite a global economic slowdown, farmland prices remain on the rise. Over the past ten years, farmland prices have increased nearly 40 percent. Farm real estate will likely become a nearly $3.5 farmland market is so strong and what factors are influencing its growth. Farmland Prices in 2023 In the U.S.

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

Modern Farmer

Investing in Real Estate as a Means to Farm Jamie and Doug Wickler were engineers, but the 2008 crash made them reconsider career paths. They had bought their home in 2013, and they secured their first rental property in 2017 (when real estate was more affordable) with help from family and friends.

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Farming in Dry Places: Investors Continue to Speculate on Colorado Water

Civil Eats

RWR sought the funds to kickstart a plan to drill deep wells on a ranch it owns in the San Luis Valley farther south, home to the nation’s second-largest potato crop. The commercial real estate investor added that he thinks water districts need to look closely at opportunities to develop new water supplies. “I

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What Are the Requirements for a Farm Loan? 

Trimble Agriculture

– Farmers, ranchers, rural landowners, farm real estate investors, and recreation and timber landowners. Farm Balance Sheet An agricultural balance sheet is a financial statement that provides a snapshot of the financial condition of a farm or ranch at a specific point in time. Who Can Apply?

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

Civil Eats

The clouds hang dark gray in the sky, and tender new leaves emerge from the towering willow oak behind the brick ranch farmhouse at the center of the farms production area. as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. I was young, I was in my 20s.