July 2007

Corn Drives Land Prices Higher and Higher

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

It’s official. The New York Times proclaimed in August that the market for Midwestern farmland was “hot,” a declaration akin to labeling Hurricane Katrina “dangerous” two weeks after it devastated the Gulf Coast. Anyone remotely familiar with the Corn Belt…

Francis Ford Coppola: The Land Report Interview

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JULIE BLACKLIDGE PUBLISHED JULY 2007 You’ve seen his work. Chances are you’ve tasted it as well. The winner of five Academy Awards, Francis Ford Coppola has also won rave reviews for his wines. His first release, a 1977…

The Law of the Land

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY TREY GARRISON Stephen Small paces the stage of an auditorium at The American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Despite his low-key speaking style and his obtuse subject matter-federal tax code-the Boston attorney holds his audience’s attention like a prophet…

Open Fields Legislation Offers Payments to Landowners

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

Remember that little place in the woods where you used to get off spectacular hip shots while hunting birds on the wing? Well, there’s a strip mall there now. That’s an increasingly common issue for hunters, whose once-prized spots are…