BY CARY ESTES To football fans, it’s known as “the trenches.” It’s the battlefield that runs the length of the line of scrimmage where jumbo-size athletes toil in obscurity, digging and sweating and struggling to control every precious inch. That’s…
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The Sweet Potato Whisperer
Tagged with: Baltimore Ravens, Centered, Farming, football, God, Jason Brown, NAACP, NFL, North Carolina, St. Louis Rams, Sweet Potatoes, Tay Brown
Posted in Cary Estes, Farming, FrontGate, North Carolina, South, Spotlight
Posted in Cary Estes, Farming, FrontGate, North Carolina, South, Spotlight
Hallowed Ground
BY CARY ESTES We are trailing Bear through a thick hardwood forest in Central Alabama. No, not Ursus americanus, the four-legged beast. Instead, we are following the same wooded trails once traveled by Paul “Bear” Bryant, the legendary University of…
Tagged with: Alabama, Alabama Black Belt, Bear Bryant, bird-dog, Chilatchee Creek, Curt Gowdy, deer, duck hunting, hunting, Jimmy Hinton, National Field Trials, National Land Realty, Plantations, quail hunting, Sedgefield Plantation, The American Sportsman, turkey hunting, Whitetail Properties
Posted in Alabama, Cary Estes, Editor's Choice, Feature, Fishing, Hunting, Lands We Love, Recreation, South
Posted in Alabama, Cary Estes, Editor's Choice, Feature, Fishing, Hunting, Lands We Love, Recreation, South
Land Investment Expo Set for January 12
Online or in person, get ready to attend the 2021 Land Expo in downtown Des Moines. BY CARY ESTES Iowa has long been fertile ground for both farm policy and national politics. This has been especially true since 1972, when…
The Sweetest of Deals
SOLD! A broad coalition rallies to preserve a beloved COLORADO landmark. By Cary Estes | Photography by Todd Winslow Pierce The path to commercial development of Colorado’s Sweetwater Lake took a detour down Memory Lane as a nostalgia- fueled community…
Posted in Cary Estes, Colorado, Conservation, Feature, Federal Policy, Public Land, Recreation, Water, West
SOLD! The Envy of New England
The Conservation Fund acquires CHADBOURNE TREE FARMS from a pioneering New England family. BY CARY ESTES PHOTOGRAPHY BY JERRY MONKMAN A premier swath of high-quality timberland in Western Maine that has been utilized as a working forest since the late…
Tagged with: Chadbourne Tree Farms, LandVest
Posted in Auctions, Cary Estes, Conservation, Feature, Maine, Northeast, Timber
Posted in Auctions, Cary Estes, Conservation, Feature, Maine, Northeast, Timber
Leading Harvest Takes First Steps
On Earth Day – April 22 – the nonprofit collective of farmers, conservationists, landowners, managers, and investors launched operations with the expressed intention of tackling complex ag issues ranging from biodiversity to sustainability. “This innovative effort establishes a rigorous and…
A Gem of a Ranch
Colorado’s historic DIAMOND TAIL RANCH embodies the best of the Old West with proven profitability. BY CARY ESTES Quite often the typical working livestock ranch is not the type of place where you want to take family or friends for…
Tagged with: Brian Smith, David R. Duncan, Diamond Tail Ranch, Hall and Hall, Old West, Ray Duncan
Posted in Agriculture, Cary Estes, Cattle, Colorado, Conservation, Equestrian, Farming, Feature, Hunting, Recreation, Residential Property, Water, West
Posted in Agriculture, Cary Estes, Cattle, Colorado, Conservation, Equestrian, Farming, Feature, Hunting, Recreation, Residential Property, Water, West
Leading Harvest Sets the Standard
A new coalition of farmland owners and operators will introduce a sustainable agriculture standard in 2020. BY CARY ESTES If Earth is our home, then the kitchen takes up half our house. According to the World Bank, 50 percent of…
Land Report 2018 Auction Deal of the Year: Western South Dakota Auction
By Cary Estes When Peoples Company auctioneer Jared Chambers was presented with the task of publicizing an impending auction of two ranches totaling more than 8,000 acres across two counties in Western South Dakota, he developed a marketing campaign that…
Tagged with: Adam Curran, Faith, Jared Chambers, Lyle Rowen, National Auctioneers Association, Peoples Company, Rhonda Rowen, Triple R Ranch, Western South Dakota
Posted in Agriculture, Auctions, Cary Estes, Cattle, Farming, Feature, Great Plains, Minerals, South Dakota, Water
Posted in Agriculture, Auctions, Cary Estes, Cattle, Farming, Feature, Great Plains, Minerals, South Dakota, Water
Land Report 2018 Ranchland Deal of the Year: El Maximo Ranch
End of an Era. By Cary Estes There was one last bit of juice left in the sprawling holdings accumulated by Florida citrus pioneer Latimer “Latt” Maxcy. Maxcy (1887–1971) was one of the first entrepreneurs to plant large tracts of…
Tagged with: Ben Crosby, citrus, Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate, Crosby & Associates, Dean Saunders, El Maximo Ranch, Investment Corporation of Dubai, Latimer “Latt†Maxcy, Latt Maxcy, Latt Maxcy Corporation, Murray Wise, Murray Wise Associates, Optimum Agriculture
Posted in Agriculture, Cary Estes, Cattle, Feature, Florida, South, Water
Posted in Agriculture, Cary Estes, Cattle, Feature, Florida, South, Water
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