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Caddo Sustainable Timberlands (CST), a platform created by BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, announced the acquisition of 119,000 acres in July. The acquisition increases CST’s Texas timberland holdings to 831,000 acres. In a published…

A 50-square-mile mixed-use landmark in Central Oregon’s Ochoco Mountains sold for $27 million to Nuveen Natural Capital, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America. Run as a commercial logging operation since the early 1900s, Foley Butte…

Former American Protein CEO Tommy Bagwell acquired Colorado’s 4,850-acre Big Creek Ranch for $39.9 million. Bagwell purchased the land from Texas’s La Mantia family as a legacy investment. A conservation easement is in place on approximately 1,980 acres. Improvements include…

Molpus Woodlands Group purchased 117,773 acres of Southern timberland from clients of Manulife Investment Management. The properties, which span eight East Texas counties and eight Northwest Louisiana parishes, contain a large inventory of high-quality timber.With strong established ties in those…

Megan Kingsbury, a fifth-generation cattle rancher, plans to build the country’s largest beef plant in South Dakota. Founder and CEO of capital firm Kingsbury & Associates and the managing partner of Sirius Realty, Kingsbury will fund the beef plant via…

Pitkin County commissioners approved a preservation deal with Meredith Loring and Sami Inkinen, owners of Aspen’s historic Highland Bavarian Lodge and bunkhouse. The conservation easement includes 49 of the property’s total 82 acres of ranchland located east of Castle Creek…

The Environmental Protection Agency set 2022’s Renewable Fuel Standard corn ethanol mandate at 15.25 billion gallons, the highest level in program history. This directive, in addition to a growing demand for alternative fuels that can coexist with food crop feedstocks,…

Brock Auction Company sold a 100-acre Plymouth County farm southeast of Le Mars, Iowa, for $25,000 per acre, well above last year’s values of $12,416 per acre. A neighboring family north of the property bought the roughly 96.33-acre farmland and…

A Hudson Valley township paid $3 million to acquire nine parcels of farmland totaling 300 acres. The acquisition ranks as one of the largestconservation acquisitions in Hudson Valley history. The Town Board of Bethlehem spent three years negotiating the transaction…

Colorado couple Tom and Carolyn Moore bought property on McLain Flats Road near Aspen that had a modest house but majestic red barn in 1996. Nearly three decades later, the Moores’ history of generous land donations — from public schools…