Landless Farmers in South America Win Land Rights
After 20 years of struggle and waiting, the families camped out in the municipality of Prado (in extreme south of Brazil’s Bahia state) finally received legal title to their land. The roughly 5,025 acres of farmland has the capacity to settle about 280 families. For members of the Landless Workers Movement (MST), the Rosa Prado […]
Policy News Around the Nation From American Farmland Trust
Here are a handful of farmland updates from across the nation from American Farmland Trust New Hampshire Rededicates Funding for Farmland Conservation After several years of being diverted, all proceeds from New Hampshire’s deed recording fee—an estimated $8.45 million over the next two years—will be dedicated to the state’s Land and Community Heritage Investment Program […]
Value Up for U.S. Cropland
Ag Economy: USDA Stats- Cropland Values, Production Expenses Categories: Agricultural Economy The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) noted in its annual Land Values report on Friday that, “The United States cropland value increased by $460 per acre (13.0 percent) to $4,000 per acre.” Friday’s report pointed out that, “In the Northern Plains and Corn […]
Talking about Land Succession
Here’s a glimpse into what happened in New Brunswick last month at the Atlantic Canadian Organic Regional Network (ACORN) Symposium. Some words from speakers Jeff Schnurr, Severine von Tscharner Fleming, Mark Bernard and Shannon Jones on “The Quest of Finding Farmland”. Jeff Schnurr -Community Forests International Speaking about: Incubator Farms Thank you to […]
Nothing Sucks Like Succession
By Dave Pratt From the Ranch Management Blog. You know how difficult it was to have that talk with your kids about the facts of life? There is a talk that you need to have with your family that is even more difficult. It’s about the facts of death. We make all sorts of excuses […]
Agricultural Transition: Recognizing the Growing Importance of Farm Transition Issues
Choices Magazine highlights many of the facets of farmland transition in a string of articles around the theme “Transitions in Agriculture”. Among the illuminating writes are: Drivers of Agricultural Transition Retired Farmer – An Elusive Concept The Policy and Legal Environment for Farm Transitions Agriculture, the Tax Code and Potential Tax Reform Credit Markets and […]
Land Gifting Tradition and Agrarian Trust
The Schumacher Center for a New Economics, a partner of Agrarian Trust tells of the tradition of land gifting and our hopes for an agrarian future. On a shelf in the Library of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics sits a small wooden box with worn leather handle—13 inches by 8 inches by 2 […]
Back on Home Soil: Veteran Small Farm Training
The 2013 Armed to Farm training begins tomorrow in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The week-long session of farm tours and practical information is offered free to a limited number of U.S. veterans and their spouses. It is organized and hosted by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT). Priority was given to returning service personnel from Operation […]
Land Grabbing in Europe
The message that land grabbing is happening in Europe is urgently being spread by the agricultural activist group Via Campesina. Via Campesina is an international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers. Land concentration and land grabbing do not occur only in developing countries in […]
Small Dutch Farm in Cooperative Venture with Large Farm
The three women of Tuinderij de Stroom in the Netherlands started off their 3 hectacres CSA-type model by borrowing start up capital from friends and acquaintances. They’ve been there now for 7 years and have collaborated with a larger Dutch farmer. The trio rent 3 hectacres of the larger 100 hectacres farm. They are on […]