It’s not often that more than a dozen square miles of Illinois farmland come to market at one time, but that’s exactly what happened last December. The 46 tracts were spread out over two counties, just east of the Iowa…
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Land Report 2016 Agriculture Deal of the Year: Wilder Farms Acquisition by Farmland Partners
Tagged with: Farmland Partners, Paul Pittman, R.D. Schrader, Wilder Farms
Posted in Agriculture, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Illinois, Midwest
Posted in Agriculture, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Illinois, Midwest
Horses to Ride, Cattle to Cut
The San Antonio Viejo Ranch of Texas Text by Henry Chappell | Original Photography by Wyman Meinzer Given rain, the Wild Horse Desert will heal after drought and hard use by humans and livestock have left it battered and bare.…
Land Report 2016 Deal of the Year: Australia’s S. Kidman & Co.
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
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Feature, International, News Desk
Mixed Results from the Kansas City Fed
The agricultural sector in the Tenth Federal Reserve District, which includes Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming, and portions of Missouri and New Mexico, recently reported varied results for the first quarter of 2017. Although farm income continues to fall off,…
Posted in Agriculture, Colorado, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Great Plains, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, News Desk, Oklahoma, Wyoming
Sale of Australia’s S. Kidman & Co. Garners Deal of the Year Honors
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
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Conservation, Feature, Great Plains, Illinois, International, Midwest, News Desk, Oklahoma, Timber
Rayonier to Acquire 95,100 Acres in Southeast
Jacksonville-based timber REIT Rayonier announced that it has entered into three separate transactions with different sellers in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina to acquire approximately 95,100 acres of high-quality industrial timberlands. The aggregate purchase price will be $217 million ($2,280…
Tagged with: Rayonier, REIT, timberlands
Posted in Feature, Florida, Georgia, News Desk, South, South Carolina, Timber
Posted in Feature, Florida, Georgia, News Desk, South, South Carolina, Timber
FOR SALE: Historic Cabin Bluff hunting and fishing retreat in Georgia
Shepherded for centuries and protected by a national seashore, this historic saltwater plantation enjoys one-of-a-kind status as America’s oldest hunting club. “Cabin Bluff has been kept mostly intact, and that’s a very unique feature,” says LandVest’s Jonathan Burt. “It’s a…
Parker Ranch Sues to Foreclose
Hawaii’s historic Parker Ranch has filed a foreclosure lawsuit against Michael Saalfeld, a German clean energy entrepreneur. According to Pacific Business News, Saalfeld agreed to pay $49.5 million to purchase a total of 3,509 acres in 35 parcels from the…
Bumper Crop Gird Land Values
Farmland values in the Midwest decreased by just 1 percent in 2016, thanks to record-setting production numbers. At 15.1 billion bushels, US corn production in 2016 jumped 11 percent over 2015 to set a new record. Soybeans enjoyed a similar…
BLM Admits to Survey Errors
A long-standing dispute over the Texas—Oklahoma state line that jeopardized private landholdings along a 116-mile stretch of the Red River has been put on hold. In a letter filed in the Northern District Court in Wichita Falls, the agency admitted…
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