Farm & Food File
A syndicated column by Alan Guebert
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Land Values Face Trouble in Coming Decade
Posted on March 18, 2022
It’s the choices we make in the good times, the grandson of a Kansas homesteader once told me, that determine our farming successes, not the choices we make in the bad times.
Why? Because, he explained, in the good times we have the money to make big mistakes and in the bad times we’re too poor […]
They Never Stopped Making It
Posted on May 11, 2016
Forty-five years ago, anyone hoping to be someone in American agriculture was offered the same, free advice: “Buy land; they’re not making it anymore.”
But “they” were making it. In fact, lots and lots of it.
According to data reported by the United Nations, the world’s farmable land base grew by about 240 million acres between 1971 […]