Farming

The Sweet Potato Whisperer

Posted on September 30, 2021 by Land Report Editors

BY CARY ESTES To football fans, it’s known as “the trenches.” It’s the battlefield that runs the length of the line of scrimmage where jumbo-size athletes toil in obscurity, digging and sweating and struggling to control every precious inch. That’s…

COVID-19 Losses Forecast at $10 Billion for Ethanol Industry

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Land Report Editors

The one-two punch of slashed production rates combined with a pandemic-related drop in demand could send US ethanol sales plummeting by a third for 2020, according to the Renewable Fuels Association. With 40 percent of every row of corn and…

Tagged with: ag, agriculture, corn, coronavirus, COVID-19, ethanol, farm, Farmers, Farming, Renewavle Fuels Association, sorghum
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Energy, Farming, Feature, News Desk

Colorado River Waters to be Rationed?

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Land Report Editors

To help the drought-stricken Colorado River basin, federal authorities plan to reduce water flow into Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, from Lake Powell 180 miles upstream. That means some tough decisions will be made concerning the millions who rely…

Tagged with: Colorado River, drought, Farming, water conservation
Posted in Colorado, Feature, News Desk, Water, West

On the Block: 3,379 acres of Farmland in Boone County, Illinois

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Land Report Editors

Schrader Real Estate & Auction Company will manage the sale of the 48 tracts, which total some 2,900 tillable acres. “It’s possible that we will have some large investors seeking to purchase substantial amounts of land, but local farmers and…

Tagged with: auction, Boone County, crop production, cropland, Farming, farmland, Illinois, tillable
Posted in Auctions, Farming, Feature, Illinois, Midwest, News Desk

Southwestern States Enduring Extreme Drought

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Land Report Editors

More than three-quarters of the Lone Star State is enduring extreme or exceptional drought conditions. Parts of the Oklahoma panhandle have gone without rain for over eight months. Some 9,000 wildfires have ravaged 2+ million acres of Texas terrain, including…

Tagged with: drought, Dust Bowl, Farming, Oklahoma, Oklahoma panhandle
Posted in Cattle, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, News Desk, Southwest, Water

Brazil to Issue Deeds to Thousands of Landowners in the Amazon Basin

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

Brazilians have long feared that foreigners were exploiting great expanses of the Amazon River Basin, a story we covered earlier this year when the Brazilian government began to investigate unlawful land sales to overseas interests. Now the country has established…

Top Ethanol Producer Files For Bankruptcy

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

One of the leading stories of 2008 has been skyrocketing commodity prices and the corresponding surge in land values throughout the Midwest, Great Plains, Southwest, and other mineral-rich areas of the country. Although the bubble has by no means burst, there…