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.
“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.
Responding to crippling input costs, Alex Harrell slashes his cropland in half and predicts significant U.S. acres may be bare come spring.
Buckshot, burning rubber, and buck-wild bedlam. Welcome to the night the lights almost went out in Georgia.
The bridge payment announcement coincides with the busiest time of year with higher volumes of land sales; 40% or greater of annual volumes occur in the fourth quarter for some ag real estate companies.
Many farmers will admit buying land almost never cash flows or makes sense at the time. But a new land investment tool shows now might be the time to act.
The Dec. 1 sale in Sioux County not only sets a farmer-buyer record for Iowa, but according to Jim Rothermich, it highlights fierce demand for premium ground as lower-quality farms see more no sales.
Outlaws, ranching legends, hideouts, hotel hookups, and a head-knocking duo of old-school lawmen.
Michigan’s David Martin is pushing legislation to curb Open Fields power on private land.