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In a world where farmland prices continue to dominate headlines and coffee shop conversations, Johnny Klemme invites us to look deeper — beyond the numbers, beyond the market reports — to explore what value  really means. Klemme is an advisor, mediator, broker, auctioneer, and family farmer, as well as co-owner of Geswein Farm & Land Realty in Lafayette, Indiana. Johnny Klemme bio: Geswein Farm & Land Realty – Co-Owner, Advisor, Broker, Auctioneer Family Farmer – West Lafayet

Mallory Devries was growing more specialty mushrooms than she could have imagined. The operation in an adjoining tent to their home was becoming so big that she and her husband realized that they would need outside labor to handle it all. Customers showed up from miles around.

Global seafood demand is rising. So are tariffs on imports. Karlanea Brown sees opportunity for others to join the business that had never been her life’s plan.

As renewable energy looks to strengthen the rural landscape, wind turbines have offered a source of power and income even as changing federal policies and organized local opposition threaten to stymie the speed of that growth.

Changing consumer tastes, ever-rising labor costs, market oversupply, and elusive profits. Those make for a bushel basket of core problems for apple growers like Kait Thornton or “applegirlkait” as she is known to her 350,000 TikTok followers and 240,000 followers on Instagram.

The potential of Chinese consumers to provide the stable export market for cherry producers in America’s Northwest feels largely out of...

Adam Chappell heard his father’s warnings when he was growing up.  He should get a college degree and do something else rather than...

When Blake Hansen describes his family’s seventh-generation Iowa dairy farm, Hansen’s Dairy , as “status quo,” he might need a “sort of”...

After roughly one in eight U.S. farms disappeared or became part of someone else’s farm in the past quarter century, it could make a...

Corn is growing in parts of North Dakota where it didn’t used to grow. Citrus production has fallen 90% over the past two decades in...

Supply has been down, while demand has remained strong. Those two forces helped keep farmland values up nationally, Randy Dickhut believes. Relying on his 30 years of farming experience and 20 years in farm management and land brokerage work, he thinks that interest will remain strong in the final months of 2025.

Arkansas is seeing a sharp rise in Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies—more than almost any other state. Dr. Ryan Loy, ag economist at the University of Arkansas, warns the financial stress is deeper than reported, as farmers struggle with high input costs, weak commodity prices, and fading pandemic-era support. With 15 bankruptcies from April 2024 to March 2025—the most in nearly a decade—experts are calling for stronger financial tools and policy support to help farmers stay afloa

Several factors can weigh down farmland values, said Tim Koch, Farm Credit Services of America Executive Vice President - Business...

Listen and subscribe on Spotify or Apple Podcasts . This year has brought six months of uncertainty and chaos for farm producers and...

They didn’t start with black raspberries, peaches, gooseberries, or currants. But they also didn’t know that customers would drive...

Mary Swander’s show is back on the road with the same mission: to use a unique way to get farm families across the country thinking about...

While members of Congress, lobby groups, and impacted Americans argued over the ramifications of the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill Act,”...

If the Drost family had a mission statement on the welcome mat at their front door, it might include this word: “balance.” Jackson and...

Since a Wyoming farm boy who expected a longer career as a lighting technician for film and television never anticipated that he would...

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