Land News
Farmland is an essential resource for American agriculture. As stewards of the land, farmers and ranchers strive to maximize per-acre value while prioritizing soil health, water conservation and wildlife management. A key indicator of the financial health of the farm sector, farmland values can be influenced by commodity prices, land quality and other factors.
“We’re on a one-way street,” says Kenneth Graves. “I don’t want to just go along and pretend.”
A minister with the Chinese Embassy calls for a “bigger-picture” relationship and expanded ag investment as Secretary of Agriculture Rollins and Secretary of War Hegseth sign a security pact to protect U.S. food systems.
Ezra and Eli Lane discovered a hoard of nine corn whiskey jugs buried for roughly 150 years, with the prize worth several thousand dollars.
New Farm Journal research explores six keys highlighting consolidation risk, regional divides and expansion sweet spots in a shifting landscape that prioritizes integrity and a tech mindset.
When Sam Krautscheid busted two outlaws, he peeled back the page on a plague of crime.
From incentives for conservation easements to a push for sustainable industrial growth, Gov. Bill Lee shares his strategy to protect the future of agriculture in Tennessee.
“On our land, my family’s attitude has always been, ‘Do the right thing and everything will be fine.’ Didn’t work with FWS.”
“There is increasing concentration by leading landowners in that asset class. Number 100 in 2007 was 75,000 acres. Now it’s 170,000 acres,” says Eric O’Keefe, editor of The Land Report.
Warning against “blind ambition,” Ron Robbins placed his row crop acres on the scales, spurred by successive years of financial strain. Keep or cull.
After years of steady growth, the U.S. agricultural land market is shifting and stabilizing.