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Join Emmy award winning career journalist, Dave Price, as he discusses land forecast trends, agricultural insights, commodity futures, and more with industry thought leaders. Where Landowners Get Their News from American Farmland Owner aims to provide you with information that helps fuel your passion for the land and your dedication to responsible stewardship. Together, we work towards the enduring prosperity of American agriculture, ensuring that its legacy thrives for generations yet to come.
Lou Jewell argues land deals need a different approach than house sales, using a highest-and-best-use example to show how the same tract's value shifts depending on its use (row crops, timber, development). He also discusses the NC land disclosure form he helped develop over roughly a decade, covering gaps (boundary and mineral-rights issues) that standard residential forms miss.
Kenny Avery, CEO of Advanced Agrilytics and former Monsanto executive, told American Farmland Owner that more landowners are discovering Section 180 of the tax code, which lets farmland owners deduct the value of excess residual soil fertility built up from years of fertilizer and lime applications. Advanced Agrilytics calculates the deduction field by field using soil samples compared against regional baseline fertility levels, then spreads the benefit over a four-to-five-year depletion schedule. The opportunity can be especially valuable for land-holding entities that lease to a separate operating company and otherwise have few deductions of their own.
Montanabeekeeper and former American Beekeeping Federation president Patty Sundbergsays solving the beekeeping industry's colony losses, which topped 62% amongcommercial beekeepers between mid-2024 and early 2025, will require help fromthe rest of agriculture. She's calling for pollinator strips, better roadsidemanagement, and use of public lands to give bees the forage they need tosurvive.
GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are reshaping howAmericans eat, and Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute's Jeremy Woodrow sees anopening for pollock, a high-protein, low-calorie whitefish long hidden in fishsticks and fast food. With three billion pounds harvested annually and modernfreezing technology improving quality, the industry is betting pollock couldbecome a go-to protein source, though Woodrow says demand from the GLP-1 trendis still in its early stages.
Watts & Associates economist Kyle Jore says crop insurance may become even more important as farm profitability remains under pressure and some producers consider selling land or giving up rented acres. Jore believes access to capital, farmland values, and the effectiveness of newer insurance products will play a key role in agriculture's financial stability in the years ahead.
Macotera Ag Group founder Scott Bozzo says California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) could ultimately remove 500,000 to 1 million acres from production as farmers adapt to limited groundwater supplies. With California having roughly 8.2 million irrigated acres, some growers are already leaving fields unplanted, reducing orchard development, or using land for groundwater recharge to stay within water budgets.
Terrain Ag economist Matt Erickson analyzed more than 30 years of USDA data across 10 Midwest and Plains states and found that farmland returns vary significantly by region. His research showed that states such as Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Iowa generated more of their returns through land appreciation, while states like Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota relied more heavily on income returns, often with greater volatility.
AttorneyChristina Rather says proposed changes to the Agricultural Foreign InvestmentDisclosure Act (AFIDA) could significantly expand reporting requirements forforeign-owned agricultural assets. The proposal would apply to existing landholdings, shorten the lease-reporting threshold from more than 10 years to morethan one year, broaden the definition of agricultural land, and increasepenalties for noncompliance.
Ron Dunker of Oaken says one of the biggest risks facing farm operations is the coming transfer of farmland ownership. With roughly half to two-thirds of U.S. farmland operated under lease agreements and a large generational land transition underway, Dunker discusses why farmers need a long-term plan to retain rented acres and strengthen relationships with future landowners.
A new analysis from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition found the USDA has lost more than 20,000employees since January 2025, including significant reductions in local Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) offices.Research cited by Dr. Becky Schewe found more than one-third of U.S. counties lost at least one FSA employee, 42 counties lost all FSA county staff, and 141 counties had no NRCS staff by early 2026.
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