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Contributor: Brooke Bouma Kohlsdorf Editor: Dave Price Where is the U.S. economy headed in 2024? That’ s a question most farmers and landowners are thinking about as they head into the new year.    The topic was also at the center of a conversation at this year’s Land Investment Expo as moderator Eric O’Keefe, editor of The Land Report, talked with two people who know a lot about the subject matter.   RELATED: Eric O’Keefe unveiled the 2024 Land Report 100, which broke news o

This interview is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts . “We had a lot going on in 2023,” Micah Brown, staff attorney for the National Agricultural Law Center at the University of Arkansas, told American Farmland Owner. Brown reflected on what states have done to restrict foreign land ownership in the United States for certain countries. But what’s next? And what role could the U.S. Supreme Court play in determining whether foreign entities can own land in America? B

This interview is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Harrison Pittman is a key thought leader at one of the country’s top entities that follows the intersection of agriculture and the law. In his more than two decades in that role, he has never witnessed the level of scrutiny on foreign farmland ownership that he is seeing now. “What we see going on right now,” Pittman told American Farmland Owner, “…it’s a historically significant shift in this area.” Pittman is t