News Desk

Cullen Heirs Join Land Report 100 at No. 28

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Land Report Editors

The storied Houston family calls 388,000 acres in and around Harris County theirs thanks to the vision of patriarch Hugh Roy Cullen (1881–1957). After owning a seat on the Houston Cotton Exchange, Cullen turned to the oil business, pioneering now…

Posted in Feature, Land Report 100, Minerals, News Desk, Southwest, Texas

City of San Angelo Parts with 864 Acres of Ranchland for $1,500 per Acre

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Land Report Editors

San Angelo sold 846 acres of the Ford Ranch for $1.296 million to a pair of limited liability corporations. According to the conditions of the sale, San Angelo retains 50 percent of the property’s mineral rights along with all rights…

Tagged with: Hickory Aquifer, mineral rights, ranchland, San Angelo, water rights
Posted in Feature, Minerals, News Desk, Public Land, Southwest, Texas, Water

Tillable Digs Deep

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Land Report Editors

It calls itself “the Airbnb of farmland,” but a lot of tenant farmers are using much saltier language to describe Chicago-based technology platform Tillable. Naysayers took to Twitter and Facebook to voice concern about the company’s intention to disrupt the…

Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Farming, Feature, News Desk

USDA Announces Agriculture Innovation Agenda

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Land Report Editors

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue says the initiative seeks to align private and public sector research in order to increase US ag production by 40 percent while cutting the environmental footprint in half by 2050. “We know we have a…

Posted in Agriculture, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk

Corn Farmers Brace for Drop in Demand

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Land Report Editors

The coronavirus pandemic is resulting in lower demand for gasoline and negatively impacting demand for corn used for ethanol. According to Todd Hubbs at the University of Illinois, gasoline consumption could dip 15 to 20 percent in the coming months,…

Tagged with: corn, coronavirus, demand, ethanol, Farmers, gasoline
Posted in Agriculture, Energy, Farming, Feature, Great Plains, Illinois, Midwest, News Desk

2020 Land Report Texas Issue

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Land Report Editors

A slew of must-read stories in our 2020 Texas Issue including: Hunting for a Cure: Henry Chappell’s in-depth cover story goes behind the scenes at the Rolling Plains Research Ranch to analyze the decades-long effort by Texas quail hunters and…

Tagged with: Between Two Rivers, blue quail, bobwhite quail, Brad Kelley, Brewster Ranches, Carl Allen, Cathedral Mountain Ranch, Dale Rollins, Dawson Elk Valley Ranch, Dove Mountain Ranch, Henry Chappell, Horse Mountain Ranch, Jerod Foster, John Poch, Park Cities Quail, Rio Texico Ranch, Rolling Plains Research Ranch, Tesnus Ranch, YE Mesa Ranch
Posted in Agriculture, Back Issues, Cattle, Conservation, Eric OKeefe, Estates, Henry Chappell, New Mexico, News Desk, Recreation, Texas

Excerpts from COVID-19 Conference Call

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Land Report Editors

The following excerpts from a conference call with economist Mark Dotzour PhD, Peoples Company president Steve Bruere, and Land Report editor Eric O’Keefe have been edited for content and clarity. An audio file of the conversation is available at the…

Tagged with: coronavirus, COVID-19, Eric O'Keefe, interest rates, Mark Dotzour, safe haven, Steve Bruere
Posted in Agriculture, Equities, Farming, Federal Policy, News Desk

Land Report 100er Brad Kelley Lists 420,000 Acres in Trans-Pecos with King Land & Water

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Land Report Editors

Pieced together over a span of decades, this massive single block of ranchland, which spans 57 miles from east to west, is an assemblage of 22 historic ranches, many of which date back to the settlement of the Texas frontier…

Tagged with: Brad Kelley, Brewster Ranches, King Land and Water, Trans Pecos
Posted in Cattle, Equestrian, Feature, Land Report 100, News Desk, Southwest, Texas

Land Report March 2020 Newsletter

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Land Report Editors

Highlights from our March newsletter include: Insights and observations on coronavirus impacting markets. Farmers suffer as Saudis and Russians send oil prices plummeting. Land Report 100er brings 500,000 acres to market in Texas and New Mexico for $500 million. For up-to-the-minute reports…

Tagged with: Brad Kelley, Eric O'Keefe, Ford Ranch, Hugh Roy Cullen, Land Report 100, Mark Dotzour, Steve Bruere, tillable
Posted in Midwest, News Desk, Newsletter, Southwest, West

The Land Report Top Ten: Winter 2019

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Land Report Editors

A 420,000-acre collection of ranches assembled over decades, BREWSTER RANCHES is the new national No. 1. — The Editors 1. BREWSTER RANCHES | $319.2 MILLION NEW! This massive assemblage of 420,000 acres in the Big Bend country of Far West…