This 1,874-acre component of Colorado’s Cross Mountain Ranch sold this summer. Known as the Osterhouse Ranch, the 3-square-mile property lies within the coveted Williams Fork River Valley and is adjacent to the Routt National Forest. Prior to the closing, the…
Text by Lesli Allison | Photography by Ilona McCarty “I look at the public lands as a huge asset, assuming you take the time to understand how they work and get to know the people involved.” — Tom Page Start…
A Napa County grand jury has questioned millions of dollars in tax breaks that were doled out to preserve wine country farmland with little chance of being developed. Passed in 1965, California’s Williamson Act seeks to ease the financial challenges…
Text by Lesli Allison | Photography by Sarah King, Heidi Crnkovic, and Ziemba Photographic Daily challenges have always been inherent to ranching in the West and there are no shortages of them in the Altar Valley, located south of Tucson…
A 23-acre estate that includes a tributary of the Yellowstone River will be auctioned by Hall and Hall Auctions on August 30 at the property in Red Lodge, Montana. The acreage includes a 5,152-square-foot custom home that was built in…
High country North Park livestock operation includes 8,686 deeded acres and 18,000 acres of BLM and State of Colorado leases. An assemblage of three mountain ranches with a carrying capacity of 1,500 cow-calf pairs or 5,000 yearlings sold for $18.5…
As the 20th century came to a close, one of the iconic ranches of the American West — the Broken O — was in the midst of a renaissance. And the driving force was a retiree. OK — Bill Moore…
Scientists from the World Resources Institute and the University of Maryland have determined that last year was the second-worst year for tropical tree cover loss, exceeded only by 2016. An area equivalent in size to Bangladesh — approximately 39 million…
According to the Department of Agriculture, 99 percent of all farms in the US are family-owned, not corporate farms. Yet because of demographic trends and costly barriers to entry, only 60 percent of farmland nationwide is actually farmed by those…
Year-over-year farmland values in the Corn Belt are holding steady; however, in the most recent quarter, an uptick in Iowa and in Wisconsin pulled overall values in the Seventh District into positive territory for 2018. — The Editors NATIONAL –…
