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In regional news, Kansas is having trouble feeding itself. That’s deeply ironic, considering the state has long been seen as the nation’s breadbasket. A…
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Farmland values have fallen sharply in parts of America’s heartland, reports The Wall Street Journal. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago cites the recent…
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The agriculture industry is entering a new period. This most recent stage is called margin compression, reports CattleNetwork.com. It occurs when revenues…
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From Harvest Public Media: The number of farms and ranches in the U.S. is on the decline and the farms that remain are getting bigger, according to new…
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Lower grain prices have caused Kansas farmland prices to slump this year, reports the Dodge City Daily Globe. The value of Kansas cropland was down 2.2…
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Wall Street investors have been buying up farmland across the US, leading some to worry that land prices are growing unustainable. According to The Rural…
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Harvest Public Media was created four years ago to report on agriculture and food production in the geographic area where the majority of that takes place…
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The average age of American farmers has been climbing for decades, and many say rural towns are at-risk without new blood. There are enough people who…
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The world’s soil is in trouble, even in the fertile Midwest. Some experts warn that if degradation continues unchecked, topsoil could be gone in 60 years.…
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The new company Fquare is bringing crowd-sourcing to the increasingly lucrative market of investing in farmland.Here’s how it works: On the Fquare…