Cattle

678,000 Acres for $20 Million?

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

For the price of a penthouse overlooking Central Park, an investor could also buy 1,000 square miles in Brazil. Prices such as this listing in the Amazon River basin’s Madeira River are one of the many reasons that many are looking…

Tagged with: Amazon, Brazil, foreign ownership, Johan Eliasch, overseas
Posted in Cattle, Conservation, Eric OKeefe, Farming, Feature, Hunting, International, News Desk, Timber, Topics, Water

Nolan Ryan: The Land Report Interview

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

Cheap and close. Those are the two criteria you use when you’re looking to buy land and you make only $7,000 a year. At least those were the two Nolan Ryan used back in the 1960s when he began buying…

Tagged with: Nolan Ryan, Texas, Video
Posted in Cattle, Farming, Southwest, Topics, Video

Idaho Ranchers Challenge Taylor Grazing Act

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2007 When the U.S. Supreme Court convened in October, the men (and woman) in black did not discuss landowner water rights. And for a pair of longtime Idaho ranchers–and perhaps other landowners–no news might mean…

Tagged with: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Joyce Livestock, LU Ranch, Supreme Court, Taylor Grazing Act
Posted in Cattle, Federal Policy, Joseph Guinto, News Desk, Regional News, Topics, West

America’s Aristocrats: Gardiner’s Island

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

Fly into JFK, look toward the setting sun, and you see Manhattan, the city that never sleeps, the Big Apple. Turn the other direction, however, and drive two hours east–past the scenic Southampton Golf Club and Napeague State Park–and you’ll…

Tagged with: colonial America, Gardiner's Island, Lion Gardiner, Long Island, Long Island Sound, Montaukett, New York, Pequot, Trey Garrison, Wyandanch
Posted in Cattle, Farming, Feature, Magazine, News Desk, Northeast, November 2007, Regional News, Residential Property, Topics, Trey Garrison

Animal ID System Faces Stiff Opposition

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2007 A program the U.S. Department of Agriculture calls “one of the largest systematic changes ever faced by the livestock industry” may be in trouble. The National Animal Identification System, which has been praised by some…

Tagged with: Brandi Calderwood, Congress, Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, GAO, Government Accountability Office, Joseph Guinto, Liberty Ark Coalition, NAIS, National Animal Identification System, USDA
Posted in Cattle, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Joseph Guinto, Magazine, News Desk, October 2007, Topics

Controversial Sale in North Dakota Badlands

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2007 More than 5,000 acres of federal land in North Dakota’s Badlands could go up for sale. That’s up to Congress. The property is supposed to be offered as a unique offset to a purchase…

Tagged with: Badlands, Billings County, Blacktail Creek Ranch, Byron Dorgan, Congress, cradle of conservation, Elkhorn Ranch, Joseph Guinto, Little Missouri River, North Dakota, Teddy Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. Forest Service, USFS
Posted in Cattle, Conservation, Feature, Federal Policy, Great Plains, Joseph Guinto, Magazine, News Desk, October 2007, Public Land, Recreation, Regional News, Topics

Eminent Domain Clouds Pinon Canyon

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

With more than 15 million acres of military bases, training centers, and maneuver sites, the US. Army ranks as one of Americas largest landowners. But when it comes to taking territory, shock and awe are not its most formidable weapons.…

Tagged with: Colorado, Department of Defense, eminent domain, Fort Carson, Gustav Schmiege, Mack Louden, Pinon Canyon, Trey Garrison
Posted in Cattle, Farming, Federal Policy, Gustav Schmiege, June 2007, Magazine, News Desk, Public Land, Regional News, Topics, Trey Garrison, West

Tom Brokaw: The Land Report Interview

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

BY ERIC O’KEEFE PUBLISHED MAY 2007 Tom Brokaw has had a front-row seat at some of the most momentous events in recent history, yet to hear him tell it, what happened on an isolated river bank on his Montana ranch…

Tagged with: A Long Way From Home, Buck Brannaman, Hungarian partridge, KMTV, KNBC, landownership, Meredith Brokaw, Michael Keaton, Montana, NBC, Red Brokaw, sharp-tailed grouse, South Dakota, The Greatest Generation, The Horse Whisperer, The Today Show, Tom Brokaw
Posted in Cattle, Conservation, Equestrian, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Hunting, Magazine, May 2007, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Timber, Topics, Water, West

Cut Your Taxes With An Agricultural Exemption

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY TREY GARRISON Anne Barnett has seen it all. The Florida real estate broker is also a licensed commercial appraiser and has developed and sold properties in Key West, Georgia, and throughout North and Central Florida, including Gainesville, where she…