…Joaquin County, vineyard and orchard farmer Joe Valente was seeing a virtual rerun of last month’s flooding. Valente, operations manager for Kautz Farms of Lodi, once again saw farmland in…
Farmland Values Continue to Decline
Farmland values are generally declining significantly in the nation’s midsection, according to Federal Reserve Banks, but the story is a little different when you look at USDA numbers. Gary Crawford…
Slump in Farmland Values Continues
…2002. Farmland values fell alongside moderate declines in the volume of farmland sales. A majority of bankers reported that fourth-quarter farmland sales were lower than a year ago, following a…
NASA Report: San Joaquin Valley Land Continues to Sink
…of the State Water Project, which supplies 25 million Californians and nearly 1 million acres of farmland. The report shows that subsidence caused by groundwater pumping near Avenal in Kings…
Agri View: Land Prices
Everett Griner talks about land prices and your possibility of investing in today’s Agri View. Land Prices It hasn’t been to many years back when farmland values exploded. A few…
Brazil Proposes Opening Farmland for Foreign Ownership
The President of Brazil plans to propose legislation to lift restrictions on foreign ownership of agricultural land in the nation in an effort to pull its economy out a two-year…
40 Percent of Farms Managed by Multiple Operators
…Also, additional operators can offer other resources, such as capital or farmland. Having a secondary operator may also provide a successor when an older principal operator phases out of farming….
Fourth Quarter 2016 Farm Lending Slows
…farmland values have continued to decline, both lenders and borrowers may be more apprehensive about adding new debt heading into 2017. A survey of bankers found non-real estate loans in…
Make-up of Family Farms
…small family farms. “That means they have gross revenues of less than 350-thousand-dollars and they make up 90-percent of the farm count and they operate about half the farmland. But…
2017 Farmland Values in Limbo
Farmers National Company says 2017 land values are dependent on several different factors the industry may see throughout the year. The agricultural landowner services company says the direction of commodity…
Smithfield Cutting Back on Gestation Crates
…is also the leader in numerous packaged meats categories with popular brands including Smithfield®, Eckrich®, Nathan’s Famous®, Farmland®, Armour®, Cook’s®, John Morrell®, Gwaltney®, Kretschmar®, Margherita®, Curly’s®, Carando®, Healthy Ones®, Krakus®,…
New Congress Likely to Address Regulatory Reform
…farmland and routine agricultural activities. AFBF has recommended the regulatory reform legislation be amended to include a prohibition on the use of social media by agencies as a means of…
Debt-To-Asset Ratios Projected to Climb 13%
…concerning.” Kauffman says the extent that farmland value holds up should help soften some of that blow from low prices and the higher ratio. From the National Association of Farm…
China to Increase Farmland by 2020
Golden farmland around tashan village, Hweichow, China The Chinese government has put together a five-year plan for land management from 2016 through 2020. Pro Farmer’s First Thing Today Report says…