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2021 Land Report Texas Issue

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Land Report Editors

Presenting our 2021 Texas Issue featuring: The Four Sixes Rides into New Territory: For the first time in more than 150 years, the great Texas ranch prepares to change hands. Henry Chappell and Wyman Meinzer report from the Sixes’ King County…

Suppressing Fires Has Failed

Posted on March 25, 2021 by Land Report Editors

Five of California’s 10 largest fires in modern history are all burning at once. Together, this year’s wildfires have already destroyed 4,200 buildings, forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes, and scorched more than 3.2 million acres…

Land Report March 2021 Newsletter

Posted on March 15, 2021 by Land Report Editors

HANCOCK AGRICULTURE and its S. Kidman and Co joint venture partner have listed seven Australian cattle stations totaling 1.876 million hectares (4.6 million acres) with Elders Ltd. Other stories in our March newsletter include: Hatcher Farms brings $38 million at…

Southern Comfort Markets

Posted on January 27, 2021 by Land Report Editors

Thanks to less expensive land, lower cost of living, milder winters, and a diverse array of landscapes, brokers in the SOUTHEAST enjoyed a banner 2020. BY CORINNE GAFFNER GARCIA Last spring, as the ramifications of COVID-19 became more and more…

Working Farms Fund Seeds A Big City Renaissance

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Land Report Editors

For decades, urban sprawl has been feasting on American farmland. A report by the American Farmland Trust states that between 1992 and 2012, nearly 11 million acres of land that had been used for “intensive food and crop production” were…

Posted in Conservation, Farming, Feature, Georgia, News Desk, South

From London To The Virginia Wine Country

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Land Report Editors

Interview with Guy and Elizabeth Pelly By Christina Holbrook | Photography by Bryan Parsons “We did not know what we were doing!” Elizabeth Pelly confesses, thinking back to the decision she and her husband Guy made to move from…

Tagged with: Guy and Elizabeth Pelly, Hall and Hall, Merrie Mill Vineyard, Winery
Posted in Feature, Interviews, News Desk, Northeast, Virginia

SOLD! Cherokee Nation to Buy Will Roger’s Ranch

Posted on January 21, 2021 by Land Report Editors

In November, the Cherokee Nation purchased Roger’s birthplace from the Oklahoma Historical Society. The 162-acre property situated in Oologah (35 miles north of Tulsa) includes a ranch-style home converted into a museum that depicts life on a 19th-century ranch in…

Tagged with: Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma Historical Society, Will Rogers
Posted in Conservation, Feature, News Desk, Oklahoma, Public Land, Southwest

2020 Wellington Land Report

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Land Report Editors

Produced by brokerage Atlantic Western Realty Corporation, the report examines trends in equestrian land sales in the South Florida enclave, known as the winter equestrian capital of the world. For the first time in more than a decade, the actual…

Tagged with: equestrian, South Florida, Wellington Land Report
Posted in Equestrian, Feature, Florida, News Desk, South

Midwest Farmland Values Up In the Third Quarter

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Land Report Editors

The overall 2 percent rise represents the first year-over-year increase in ag land values in the past six years with Indiana and Wisconsin leading the way at 6 percent and 3 percent, respectively. Illinois grew 2 percent with Iowa at…

Posted in Agriculture, Feature, Federal Policy, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Midwest, News Desk, Wisconsin

Where the Buffalo Roam

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Land Report Editors

By KATY RICHARDSON | Photography by WYMAN MEINZER Kelsey’s version of home on the range takes place in the heart of the Big Empty. Texas’s King County has been home to many of the most storied ranches in the history…