In 2022, 39% of agricultural land was rented – a proportion that has remained relatively stable for over 50 years. When deciding how to acquire land, rising farm real estate values can be a valuable ...

“Son, any man who buys land in Iowa today is a fool.” The speaker, naturally, was an Iowa dirt farmer, sounding off last week on the rip-roaring boom in farm lands. He still remembered the World War I ...

A Massachusetts farm run by members of the L.L. Bean family could lose its business over a bitter battle with a local land trust. Christopher Bean, 29, whose great-grandfather was a cousin of the ...

The confirmation process for Brooke Rollins, Trump’s nominee for secretary of Agriculture, is taking place as America’s farmland is undergoing a radical transformation. High land prices and a rise in ...

Jim Abeles and Kat Topaz had a dream: to get out of the rat race and become farmers. But the couple, who both used to work in publishing and tech, didn’t realize how hard it would be to make a living ...

Auctioneer Randy Stabe leads the largest land auction of his career Sept. 17 - 18 at the Hinton Community Center in northwest Iowa. Iowa farmers are seeing a drop in their income. Economists say one ...