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Joshua Manske: Back to the Farm after Pro Golf Career

The family farm required the same characteristic that helped Joshua Manske thrive on the golf course: patience. Agriculture was never really something Manske left behind. But it was something that patiently waited for him to return.

Dave Price

12 hours ago

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WEEKLY AGRICULTURAL INSIGHTS

Costs, Land, and Productivity Shape U.S.–Brazil Soybean Competition

Purdue study finds U.S. soybean farmers face higher costs, limited land, and competition from Brazil, highlighting need for yield gains and diversification.

David Geiger

12 hours ago3 min read

Farmland Values Hold Firm Despite Weaker Farm Finances, Fed Surveys Show

Several recent regional reports reflect the continued strength of farmland. But they also show some sectors that face mounting financial pressures, while others show increased opportunities. American Farmland Owner prioritizes the importance of reporting in-depth research on factors that impact farmland values for current owners, investors, and people who are considering entering this agricultural space. Steady Farmland Values in the Midwest and Plains Farmland values acro

Brooke Bouma Kohlsdorf

12 hours ago3 min read

This Entrepreneur Focuses on Opportunity and Not Heated Immigration Debate

With the United States in the middle of a fierce debate on which immigrants should be allowed to legally remain and work in the United States, people like Sharon Krause is focused on opportunities for those committed to making a living on the farm. Should all people who entered the country illegally be forced to leave? Should only those who have violent criminal records be removed? Should everyone who overstayed a temporary visa get deported? Those questions and others have d

Dave Price

12 hours ago4 min read

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Costs, Land, and Productivity Shape U.S.–Brazil Soybean Competition

Purdue study finds U.S. soybean farmers face higher costs, limited land, and competition from Brazil, highlighting need for yield gains and diversification.

POLICY, POLITICS, & GOVERNMENT

David Geiger

12 hours ago3 min read

Farmland Values Hold Firm Despite Weaker Farm Finances, Fed Surveys Show

Several recent regional reports reflect the continued strength of farmland. But they also show some sectors that face mounting financial pressures, while others show increased opportunities. American Farmland Owner prioritizes the importance of reporting in-depth research on factors that impact farmland values for current owners, investors, and people who are considering entering this agricultural space. Steady Farmland Values in the Midwest and Plains Farmland values acro

Brooke Bouma Kohlsdorf

12 hours ago3 min read

This Entrepreneur Focuses on Opportunity and Not Heated Immigration Debate

With the United States in the middle of a fierce debate on which immigrants should be allowed to legally remain and work in the United States, people like Sharon Krause is focused on opportunities for those committed to making a living on the farm. Should all people who entered the country illegally be forced to leave? Should only those who have violent criminal records be removed? Should everyone who overstayed a temporary visa get deported? Those questions and others have d

CULTURE & EVENTS

Dave Price

12 hours ago4 min read

Joshua Manske: Back to the Farm after Pro Golf Career

The family farm required the same characteristic that helped Joshua Manske thrive on the golf course: patience. Agriculture was never really something Manske left behind. But it was something that patiently waited for him to return.

LANDOWNERS PODCAST

Dave Price

12 hours ago4 min read

Farmers, Commodities, and Consumers Impacted by the Fertilizer Crisis

Rising fertilizer prices are emerging as one of the most immediate agricultural consequences of the escalating U.S. and Israel war with Iran, creating uncertainty for farmers preparing for the spring planting season. Analysts warn that the conflict’s disruption of global fertilizer supplies could affect crop decisions, farm profitability, and ultimately food prices for consumers. It is one more political dynamic that farmers will watch as they are already waiting to see if Pr

POLICY, POLITICS, & GOVERNMENT

Brooke Bouma Kohlsdorf

Mar 133 min read

U.S. Farm Loss Continues, Though Causes Differ by State

American farmers are growing larger crops on fewer farms. While that long-term trend is clear nationwide, the factors driving farm losses vary widely by state. And there are still a couple years until the U.S. Department of Agriculture releases its next Census of Agriculture. Danny Munch, an American Farm Bureau economist, said this shows a couple trending factors. “The long-term decline in farm numbers alongside a decline in farmland shows consolidation, productivity gains,

FARMLAND FINANCE & INVESTMENT (FIN)

David Geiger

Mar 133 min read

States Consider Moratorium on Data Centers

How widespread is the opposition from people who don’t want farmland converted to data centers, are concerned about the water use from those facilities, oppose taxpayer subsidies for data centers, or a combination of those three complaints? It is so much so that nearly one in four states have considered moratorium legislation on new data centers, according to Good Jobs First , a nonprofit organization that tracks government subsidies, actions that it considers corporate misco

TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Dave Price

Mar 132 min read

Renewable Energy Leader Jeff Risely: Finding Compromise with Farmers and Neighbors

As renewable energy projects expand across rural America, many landowners are weighing the benefits of wind and solar leases against concerns from neighbors and local officials. For farmers looking for financial stability in a volatile agricultural economy, the conversation increasingly centers on how to find reasonable compromises that allow development while addressing community concerns. That balancing act is at the heart of the work being done by the Renewable Energy Farm

LANDOWNERS PODCAST

Dave Price

Mar 134 min read

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Kristi Noem Out as Key Deportation Leader of Trump Administration

Regardless of whether you believe that she was fired or transferred to another position, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is leaving her job, a change announced by President Donald Trump on social media Thursday. Although, President Trump announced the change after Noem’s performance this week at two congressional hearings where she faced questions about a $220 million ad campaign (funded by taxpayers) that prominently featured her (that she claimed President

POLICY, POLITICS, & GOVERNMENT

Dave Price

Mar 63 min read

Pushing Back at Data Centers While America Seeks More Power

In the years ahead, America will need far more power generated than we currently produce. Our ever-increasing hunger for technology – and the power that it takes to operate that technology – demand it. Wind, solar, natural gas, coal and nuclear could be all among the options to produce some of that additional capacity. Data centers could be an integral part of the nation’s economy for the infrastructure to provide the storage, processing, internet, and distribution system to

CULTURE & EVENTS

Dave Price

Mar 63 min read

Trying to Make Sense of Changing Tariff Policies

You may think better trade deals are the answer, or you may believe that American presidents abandoned the concept of much higher tariffs decades ago because of the harm they can cause our country’s families. Either way, you know that the past year has been volatile and unpredictable. American agricultural producers now wait, most likely with little optimism, that the court system could deliver them refunds on the higher prices they paid because of President Donald Trump’s hi

POLICY, POLITICS, & GOVERNMENT

Dave Price

Mar 64 min read

Ethan Branscum: 721 Exchanges Could Keep Farms in the Family

Listen and subscribe on Spotify | Apple Podcasts The farmland may be paid off and generating income. But looming capital gains taxes can make a straight sale financially painful. Or maybe an heir isn’t so sure that owning a farm is really what he wants to do in the years ahead. That is where a 721 exchange could be an option. “We're one of the few firms that have ever done it or tried it in the farmland space,” said Ethan Branscum, Director of Investments at Sower Farmland, w

FARMLAND FINANCE & INVESTMENT (FIN)

Dave Price

Mar 63 min read

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Joshua Manske: Back to the Farm after Pro Golf Career

The family farm required the same characteristic that helped Joshua Manske thrive on the golf course: patience. Agriculture was never really something Manske left behind. But it was something that patiently waited for him to return.

12 hours ago4 min read

Renewable Energy Leader Jeff Risely: Finding Compromise with Farmers and Neighbors

As renewable energy projects expand across rural America, many landowners are weighing the benefits of wind and solar leases against concerns from neighbors and local officials. For farmers looking for financial stability in a volatile agricultural economy, the conversation increasingly centers on how to find reasonable compromises that allow development while addressing community concerns. That balancing act is at the heart of the work being done by the Renewable Energy Farm

Mar 134 min read

Ethan Branscum: 721 Exchanges Could Keep Farms in the Family

Listen and subscribe on Spotify | Apple Podcasts The farmland may be paid off and generating income. But looming capital gains taxes can make a straight sale financially painful. Or maybe an heir isn’t so sure that owning a farm is really what he wants to do in the years ahead. That is where a 721 exchange could be an option. “We're one of the few firms that have ever done it or tried it in the farmland space,” said Ethan Branscum, Director of Investments at Sower Farmland, w

Mar 63 min read

Guiding The Farmer Who Turned Down $15 Million for a Data Center

When an 86-year-old farmer along the Route 81 corridor in central Pennsylvania was offered roughly $60,000 an acre for his land, the math was staggering. At 261 acres, the total approached $15 million.

Feb 274 min read

Longtime Midwest Land Broker Dennis Reyman: Farmers Still Most of Land Buyers

Listen on Spotify | Apple Podcasts Farms are getting bigger, and there are fewer farms each year. Those changes have taken place over a number of years. But Dennis Reyman, Partner at Stalcup Agricultural Services in Storm Lake, Iowa, said one factor remains constant in a constantly changing agricultural industry: farmers are still doing most of the farm buying. “…as far as land ownership, the trends are kind of the same as they usually are,” Reyman told American Farmland Ow

Feb 204 min read

Waylon Brown: Rural America’s Hope and Struggles with Renewable Energy

For rural landowners, renewable energy remains one of the most talked-about — and misunderstood — developments shaping the countryside. Waylon Brown, Regional Policy Manager for Clean Grid, sees both the promise and the growing pains facing wind, solar, and battery storage across the Midwest.

Feb 134 min read

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