Touch the Soil News #2063 (photo – Farmland – courtesy of USDA , Public Domain) The non-profit International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (iPES), which is a thinktank on global food systems recently released a report called the Land Squeeze. Coming out of the report is the impact of financial interest in farmland…
Touch the Soil News #2062 (photo – U.S. Farmland – Courtesy of the USDA, Public Domain) While farmer’s farm, and people in other occupations work, it is inevitable that millions of people are working to build investments for retirement. Every month, billions of dollars that were circulating through wages, are taken out of that loop…
Touch the Soil News #2061 (photo – Growing Crops – Public Domain, USDA) Each year, the USDA puts out a report called Farms and Land in Farms. The data provides trends for growers of all sizes and goes back to 1950. The peak farmland year in America was 1954 when the nation was farming 1,206,335,000…
Touch the Soil News #2055 (photo – Field Corn – USDA NRCS) Each year, new records are broken in terms of farmland sales as a price per acre. While farmland in terms of sagebrush ridden desert acres is worth much less that prime farmland in Iowa, a driver of prices is that acres being farmed…
Touch the Soil News #2044 (photo – Corn Field – Courtesy of NRCS/USDA) For anyone that is farming in soils, access to farmland is a challenge to keep an eye on. If there is a reasonable deal, it may be worth stretching a little to get it. Recently, two plots of land sold in Iowa,…
Touch the Soil News #2034 (photo – Healthy Farmland Soils) (Courtesy of USDA Public Domain) Successful Farming News Portal brings an insightful story about farmland values that even bankers are wincing over. When the price of farmland reaches a certain threshold, the revenue from crops can no longer pay the cost plus its financing costs. …
Touch the Soil News #2009 (photo – Mennonite Horse Carriage – (CCA SA 2.5 Generic, Alan Walker) The Republic of Suriname, a former Dutch colony achieved full independence in 1975. Being the smallest nation in South America, the nation is primarily covered with rainforests. With a GDP of about .0001 of that of America, the…
Touch the Soil News #1982 (Photo – California Farmland – Carol Highsmith, Public Domian) Farmland Grab news portal brings a story about Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland. Come to find out, China owns very little U.S. farmland. The largest foreign owner of farmland in the U.S. turns out to be Canada at 12.8 million acres…
Touch the Soil News #1976 (Photo – Wheat Harvest – USDA – Public Domain) The USDA just released its Cropland Value Report. The USDA estimates that the volume of land in farms continues to inch downwards, coming in at 893 million acres. Of that amount actual cropland in the neighborhood of 300 million acres and…
Touch the Soil News #1961 (Photo – Irrigated Wheat – USDA, Public Domain) Every year, the USDA publishes a report called “Farms and Land in Farms.” With statistics going back to 1950, you can see how much land has been taken out of farming and how farm numbers have decreased. The peak farmland year was…
