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The Future of Energy
CONTRIBUTOR: SKYLAR LATHROP EDITOR: DAVE PRICE Energy production is competitive. One segment could compete with others for market share....
Skylar Lathrop
Jan 19, 20245 min read


Help for Farmers in 2024
This is an uncomfortable and deeply troubling statistic: farmers take their own lives at higher rates than people in many other...
Dave Price
Jan 12, 20243 min read


Section 1031
Written by: Skylar Lathrop Edited by: Dave Price Do you know anyone who says that dealing with Internal Revenue Service rule changes is...
Skylar Lathrop
Jan 12, 20244 min read


The Top Ten
Regulating waters on landowner properties, giving more space for chickens, and repairing your own tractor were all significant...
Dave Price
Jan 5, 20242 min read


Got Milk?
In 2024, the order is in from Walmart: “More milk, please.” Walmart will spend the year getting ready to open another milk processing...
Dave Price
Jan 5, 20243 min read


Understanding the new Corporate Transparency Act
A push for greater transparency might mean landowners have to supply more information to comply. On January 1st, the federal Corporate...
Dave Price
Jan 5, 20243 min read


Political Landscape
As the calendar turns to 2024, it officially begins an election year. Does that mean Congress will become even more unproductive in the...
Dave Price
Dec 28, 20232 min read


Citrus Challenges and Opportunities
New Year’s Day means a mid-day kickoff for college football fans, especially supporters of the Iowa Hawkeyes and Tennessee Volunteers....
Dave Price
Dec 28, 20233 min read


Taking Flight
Flight100’s path across the Atlantic Ocean may symbolize a new journey that could benefit some farmland owners and the environment....
Dave Price
Dec 22, 20233 min read


Two Growing Costs in Agriculture
The new “Great Awakening” and “Great Resignation” raised wages across the United States’ labor market writ large over the past few years...
Dave Price
Dec 22, 20234 min read


The Future of Ted Turner's Land
There have been many questions over the years about billionaire Ted Turner’s land purchases. Why is he buying it? What will he do with...
Dave Price
Dec 22, 20233 min read


Stability, and That's Just Fine
“There is no headline,” Ashley Poduska chuckled during her conversation with American Farmland Owner as she thought about the farmland...
Dave Price
Dec 8, 20232 min read


What's Happening in the Hoosier State
Farm mortgage debt has been increasing; it’s too soon to know the impact of carbon sequestration on land values; and farmland continues...
Dave Price
Nov 30, 20233 min read


The Nut Business
Almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts. Take your pick; producers are struggling with all of them these days. The bottom line is this: the 21st...
Dave Price
Nov 30, 20233 min read


A Bunch of Apples
Landowners with apple orchards in Michigan have seen a plentiful harvest. The crop was so big that it became part of a USDA record...
Dave Price
Nov 22, 20233 min read


The Next Generation
A future shift of land ownership has been discussed over the past several years by various forecasters. AgAmerica’s 2023 U.S. Farmland...
Dave Price
Nov 22, 20232 min read


Farmland's Demand by Investment Firms
Farmland competition is getting tougher thanks to new competition from large investment firms, an investigation by Reuters found....
Dave Price
Nov 22, 20232 min read


Expectations for Fertilizer Costs
Some of the largest fertilizer companies are looking for the potential for greater profits in 2024, which means landowners will want to...
Dave Price
Nov 16, 20232 min read


Covering the Crops
It is costing more…substantially more…for landowners to insure their crops than it did two decades ago, according to a recent report from...
Dave Price
Nov 9, 20232 min read


Sneak Peek
Hollywood promotes its coming attractions. And while a glimpse at a future USDA report may not be as glitzy, it’s far more relevant to...
Dave Price
Nov 9, 20231 min read
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