Originally part of a land grant from King George III, the prestigious 1,115-acre farm and ranch stretches across the verdant Shenandoah Valley. Sometimes referred to as Court Manor, the working cattle ranch boasts exterior and interior fencing along with a…
Ford Family | No. 15 600,000 ACRES (up 20,000 acres) Founded by Washington native Kenneth Ford (1908–1997) in 1936, ROSEBURG FOREST PRODUCTS has become one of the largest family-owned wood products manufacturers in the nation. The company’s expansive timber holdings…
Rich with history, blessed by Mother Nature, and graced by a world-class location, Eldon ranks as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the savvy, conservation-minded investor. This legacy landholding in the Virginia hunt country features far more than 11 square miles of…
Featured listings from our Investing Issue highlight our November newsletter, including: Colorado’s Diamond Tail Ranch. Martha’s Vineyard’s Red Gate Farm. Virginia’s Eldon Stock Farm. Washington’s Lakeridge Homestead. For up-to-the-minute reports on breaking news, be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram.
Recognized as one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on earth, longleaf pine forests once totaled more than 90 million acres and extended from Southern Virginia to Central Florida and East Texas. Less than 4 million acres exist today. In…
Congress considers eliminating key landowner tax tool. Grover Norquist is bullish on the prospects for passage of tax reform legislation this year. However, the founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform is sounding an alarm on the potential repeal…
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that wildfires burned a record 10,125,149 acres across the United States last year. The 2015 total eclipsed the previous record, which was set in 2006. Of last year’s blazes, more than 50 exceeded 50,000 acres,…
The Department of Agriculture is projecting that 2015 will mark another down year for American farmers and ranchers with agricultural sector production projected to fall 9.2 percent to $427 billion. Contributing factors include increased global competition and a slowdown in…
The United States Department of the Interior along with the Department of Justice have agreed to a proposed $940 million settlement to resolve a quarter-century-old legal dispute with Native American tribes. At issue: costs for programs the federal government mandated…
LandVest www.landvest.com (617) 723-1800 2014 Sales: > $500 Million Who: “LandVest’s brokerage business manages the disposition, planning, and marketing of investment-grade timberland properties on behalf (and to) institutional investors and high-net-worth families. We specialize in the largest and most complex…
