Mary Swander: Taking Farm Succession Conversations on the RoadMary 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 their succession plans. Her approach is really unique and for a good reason.Only 56% of the farms in the United States were involved in some level of succession planning, according to the 2017 USDA Census. “Yeah, no, no, it’s something no one wants to talk about, because it’s money,” ...| AmericanFarmlandNews
Agriculture producers had warned the Trump administration for months, along with members of Congress, that deportation raids by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) could devastate food production and processing. Many workers in the industry are immigrants. Some of them have legal status, while others do not.Last week, they thought that their industry might be spared from the administration’s attempts to deport millions of people. But on Monday, The Washington Post was among the n...| AmericanFarmlandNews
Climate Land Leaders: How to Conserve and Protect Your Land with Teresa OpheimCorn 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 Florida. Other areas have dealt with record rainfall, higher heat, or drought like they have never experienced before. Has the behavior of humans caused permanent alterations in the planet’s weather systems? Is this somehow just an extended weather pattern that will subside? There ...| AmericanFarmlandNews
Recent farmland sales include a legacy Ohio dairy farm, Illinois development ground, and premium Iowa cropland with top-tier soils and strong CSR2 ratings.| AmericanFarmlandNews
AFO Rick NaereboutListen and subscribe on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. This year has brought six months of uncertainty and chaos for farm producers and their migrant workers. Rick Naerebout doesn’t pretend that he thinks that he has all the answers, or that he can predict the future. But he is feeling more confident that some of the changes that he seeks for the dairy industry could happen in the months ahead.Naerebout has been in the dairy business most of his life. He grew up on his family...| AmericanFarmlandNews
A Montana Man’s Trip to Try to Save His Solar Business: Ralph WaltersSince a Wyoming farm boy who expected a longer career as a lighting technician for film and television never anticipated that he would end up owning a solar business with his wife in Montana, it is perhaps fitting that he took an expected trip to Washington, D.C. to fight for the future of the industry that he now treasures.“It's just a really neat technology,” Ralph Walters told American Farmland Owner from his office...| AmericanFarmlandNews
Paul NeifferPaul Neiffer is a farm boy by birth. As an adult, he now owns farms in three states. So, he still believes in the future of farmland. But he also believes that the next several years could be difficult for the farmers he serves.“The psyche right now (for farmers) is this year really is not great,” Neiffer said from his office in Colorado.Neiffer is a certified public accountant who specializes in taxes and accounting services for farmers and agricultural processors. He authors...| AmericanFarmlandNews
