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Is dramatically raising tariffs the way to get American companies to keep their operations in the country? Is just the threat of much...

Investors are eying the middle of September when the Federal Reserve Board will meet and decide whether to lower borrowing costs. One...

SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCASTS A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned a previous 1984 ruling could potentially impact what rules...

A politician and his administration make a decision based on a longer-term view of their state’s water needs. A farmer looks at how that...

The newest version of the Farm Bill is good. It’s bad. Congress is going to pass it. Congress won’t pass it. Take your pick. There are...

SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCASTS Whether he is floating on it or figuring out a plan for a landowner to use it as a new revenue stream, Clay...

The Heatons and ranching have gone together for generations. Six of them. Chris Heaton, the sixth generation, believes that the Biden...

A southern Iowa man wants to build a pond on his 420-acre property for its water supply, fishing, and ecological benefits. But the...

Congress might commit to a new Farm Bill this year after all. But there is always the wild card in the U.S. House of Representatives...

Iowa was already widely recognized as a state with some of the toughest requirements for foreign ownership of farmland. But that just got...

New rules in California aim to reduce water use but not as much as previously planned. However, some communities will still need to cut...

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