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U.S. Lawmakers seek to limit corporate, foreign ownership of farmland

Farm groups, lawmakers are concerned that foreign, investor ownership is driving up prices and threatening national security

By GFM Network News, Leah Douglas July 27, 2023

Washington | Reuters – U.S. lawmakers from both parties are pushing legislation that would limit who can own American farmland, with a latest effort from Democratic Senator Cory Booker aimed at curbing corporate ownership. Farm groups and lawmakers are concerned that land buys by investors and foreign countries are driving up farmland prices and threatening

Neil Townsend (left) of FarmLink and Jason Newton of Nutrien discuss farm consolidation at the Grain World conference in Saskatoon on Nov. 28, 2019. (MarketsFarm photo by Glen Hallick)

Crops

Grain World: Farm consolidation key to increasing yields

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm December 4, 2019

Saskatoon | MarketsFarm — Consolidating farms — going from numerous small operations to fewer, but much larger, farms — is central to improving crop yields, according to grain industry observers Neil Townsend and Jason Newton. Townsend is the chief market analyst for FarmLink Marketing Solutions, while Newton is the chief economist and head of marketing

Markets

Report shows slower pace for rising farmland values

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff April 29, 2019

While lower-valued farmland more often showed a higher rate of increase, and price hikes varied from region to region, Canada’s farmland values on average have booked their slowest year-over-year rate of increase in almost a decade. That’s according to the annual Farmland Values Report from Farm Credit Canada (FCC), in which the federal ag lending

Crops, Markets

FCC sees increase in Canadian farmland values slowing

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News April 10, 2017

Farmland values in Canada, on average, appreciated in 2016 — and while it was less of an increase than the year before, the gain easily beat a bank GIC. Land prices here in Manitoba, which have been rising steadily since 1992, on average gained 12 per cent in both 2015 and 2014. But after four

Swaledale, a dale (valley) in Yorkshire. (CIA.gov)

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England’s farmland prices fall ahead of Brexit vote

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 11, 2016

London | Reuters –– Farmland prices in England fell by 3.2 per cent in the first quarter of this year — the largest quarterly decline since 2008, weighed partly by uncertainty ahead of the June 23 referendum on European Union membership, estate agent Knight Frank said. Knight Frank’s Farmland Index fell to 19,538 pounds (C$35,881)

Daily Network News

Russia’s top agriculture official blames low global grain prices for export slowdown

U.S. livestock: Cattle rebound on technical buying

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall as rapid harvest overshadows China trade hopes

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U.S. Lawmakers seek to limit corporate, foreign ownership of farmland

Grain World: Farm consolidation key to increasing yields

Report shows slower pace for rising farmland values

FCC sees increase in Canadian farmland values slowing

England’s farmland prices fall ahead of Brexit vote

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