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Land Report July 2020 Newsletter

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Land Report Editors

Highlights from our July newsletter include: Australia’s Forrest family acquires two cattle stations totaling more than 500,000 acres. The Conservation Fund acquires 15,408-acre Chadbourne Tree Farms in Maine. Burger King Prevails in court, wins dismissal of vegan lawsuit. For up-to-the-minute reports on…

Tagged with: AFM, American Forest Foundation, American Forest Management, Andrew Forrest, Bayer, Bayer Carbon Initiative, Burger King, Ed Bass, Great America Outdoors Act, Jubilee Downs, King Charles I, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Quanbun Downs, Raag Singhal, The Conservation Fund, Tom Margo, William Chadbourne
Posted in Agriculture, Alabama, Auctions, Cattle, Conservation, Federal Policy, Florida, Georgia, International, Kentucky, Maine, News Desk, Newsletter, Northeast, South, Tennessee

Irving Family: 2019 Land Report 100 Sponsored by Hayden Outdoors Real Estate

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Land Report Editors

Irving Family | No. 6 1,247,880 ACRES Kenneth Colin “K.C.” Irving (1899–1992) ranks as Canada’s equivalent of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller. In the early 20th century, Irving gained a foothold in the oil patch that eventually evolved into…

Tagged with: Canada, forestland, Hayden Outdoors Real Estate, Irving Family, Irving Oil, J.D. Irving, Kenneth Colin Irving, minerals, oil
Posted in Energy, Feature, Georgia, International, Land Report 100, Maine, Minerals, Northeast, South, Timber

Canadian Pension Fund Buys Broetje Orchards

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Eric OKeefe

One of largest family-owned tree-fruit farms in the Northwest sells. – Eric O’Keefe Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has acquired Washington State’s Broetje Orchards. The blockbuster transaction, which included 6,175 acres of tree-fruit orchards, closed in December. No financial terms were…

Tagged with: Broetje Orchards, Canada, Center for Sharing, Cheryl Broetje, New Horizon Early Childhood Education Center, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Ralph Broetje, Villa Hermosa Foundation
Posted in Agriculture, Conservation, Feature, International, News Desk, Pacific, Washington

Court Orders Austrian Government to Pay $1.7 Million to Owner of Der FÃ¼hrer’s Childhood Home

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Land Report Editors

After trying (and failing) for decades to negotiate the purchase of Adolph Hitler’s birthplace with its owners, the Austrian government expropriated the home in 2016 for 310,000 euros, reports The New York Times. Gerlinde Pommer, a descendant of the owners…

Tagged with: Adolph Hitler, Austrian government, Gerlinde Pommer
Posted in Feature, Federal Policy, International

Land Report June 2018 Newsletter

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Land Report Editors

In our June newsletter, the long arm of the law takes center stage: The Supreme Court hands Florida a win over Georgia in a water dispute In Texas, private land seizures have begun as the administration builds its border wall…

Tagged with: biomass, eminent domain, EPA, Scott Pruitt, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, timberland, water court
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Conservation, Energy, Farming, Federal Policy, International, Midwest, Minerals, News Desk, Newsletter, Northeast, Public Land, Recreation, Southwest, Taxes, Timber, Water, West

SOLD! Listed for $2.95 Million, Chile’s Spectacular Fundo Los Leones Sells

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Land Report Editors

Located at the northern tip of the AysÃ©n region in Southern Chile, 1,700-acre Fundo Los Leones enjoys six miles of private protected shoreline on the spectacular Pitipalena Fjord as well as five miles of the Palena River as it flows…

Tagged with: Chile, Fundo Los Leones, Ken Mirr, Mirr Ranch Group
Posted in Conservation, Feature, International, Recreation, Residential Property

Weyerhaeuser to Sell Last of Holdings Outside North America

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Land Report Editors

In June, the timberland giant (WY) announced it will deaccession more than 300,000 acres of forests in Uruguay and sell them to an investment group led by a Brazilian financial firm for just over $400 million. The holdings represent the…

Tagged with: Doyle Simons, Uruguay, Weyerhaeuser
Posted in Feature, International, News Desk, Timber

Land Report 2016 Deal of the Year: Australia’s S. Kidman & Co.

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Eric OKeefe

Cattle King’s Empire Sells Founded in 1899, S. Kidman & Co grew to be larger than all of Ireland. Its sale became a national obsession for Australians of all walks. Text by Eric O’Keefe The ability of a bold soul…

Tagged with: Australia, Australian Outback Beef, Gina Rinehart, Kidman Group, Sidney Kidman, The Cattle King
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Feature, International, News Desk

Sale of Australia’s S. Kidman & Co. Garners Deal of the Year Honors

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Land Report Editors

Other honorees from 2016 include Ranchland Deal of the Year, Agriculture Deal of the Year, and Timberland Deal of the Year. A remarkable series of landmark transactions takes center stage in the Spring 2017 issue of The Magazine of the…

Tagged with: Bluestem Ranch, Farmland Partners, Forest Investment Associates, Gina Rinehart, Hancock Timber Resource Group, Molpus Woodlands Group, Osage Nation, S. Kidman & Co., Sidney Kidman, Ted Turner, Wilder Farms
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Conservation, Feature, Great Plains, Illinois, International, Midwest, News Desk, Oklahoma, Timber

The Land Report Spring 2017

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Land Report Editors

The Magazine of the American Landowner announces its much anticipated Deals of the Year. This year’s honorees include: Deal of the Year: S. Kidman & Co Sells to Australian Outback Beef Ranchland Deal of the Year: Osage Nation Buys Bluestem Ranch…