As committed to under USDA’s National Farm Security Action Plan (PDF, 1.2 MB) U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced a number of coordinated actions to continue to emphasize ...

Quality farmland stays strong while lower-grade parcels struggle as federal assistance helps stabilize the agricultural land ...

“Yeah, you can buy dirt... And thank the good Lord for it... ‘Cause he ain’t makin’ any more of it.” The lyrics above are from the 2021 hit country song “Buy Dirt,” which voices a mantra that lives ...

Entities and products from foreign adversary countries are now ineligible for the USDA's BioPreferred Program and guaranteed ...

Foreign investors own roughly 41 million acres of U.S. agricultural land, posing national security risks when the land is ...

In 2022, 39% of agricultural land was rented – a proportion that has remained relatively stable for over 50 years. When deciding how to acquire land, rising farm real estate values can be a valuable ...

A. Pennsylvania has a robust Farmland Preservation program—more than 11 million acres of state farmland is enrolled in its Clean & Green Program, which helps keep property taxes affordable. The ...

This publication was written specifically for use on the World Wide Web and is best viewed in hypertext form. Containing over 25 hypertext links within the text, the on-line version is available from ...

Each year we get a number of questions from landowners and tenants on agricultural land leasing—from average cash rental rates to written lease forms, etc.

The dispute concerned taxation of land sale as capital gains despite claims that it was agricultural land beyond municipal limits. The Tribunal held that rejecting the claim without examining evidence ...

CHESAPEAKE — A portion of active farmland in southern Chesapeake has been converted from residential to agricultural land. City Council last week approved a request from Ben Hubbard to rezone 22 acres ...