The Magazine of the American Landowner announces the 2017 Deals of the Year: Deal of the Year: Jack and Laura Dangermond’s $165 Million Donation Preserves Santa Barbara’s Bixby Ranch as the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve Ranchland Deal of the Year: Colorado’s…
Jeff and Jackie Brunson have grown alfalfa, Timothy hay, and other crops on their Central Washington farm in Kittitas County. They want to expand their farming operation to include a solar power lease to Seattle-based Tuusso Energy, and Gov. Jay…
The Chinese owners of Smithfield Foods are on the hook for $50 million, thanks to a federal court in Raleigh, North Carolina. Ten neighbors filed suit arguing, that the waste treatment methods of the world’s largest pork producer were not…
Dan and Michael Murphy share honors as APEX 2017 Top National Producer at RLI’s National Land Conference last month in Nashville. On March 13, the Realtors Land Institute (RLI) recognized the best in the land business with the APEX Awards.…
Businessweek reports that Harvard bet the farm in Brazil — and lost. The managers of the nation’s largest university endowment made a substantial investment in a sprawling agricultural development in Northeastern Brazil. According to one analyst, Harvard’s top money managers…
Overachievers, led by Dan and Michael Murphy of Colorado’s M4 Ranch Group, were honored at the Realtors Land Institute’s Apex Awards in Nashville on March 13. The Murphys took top honors as APEX 2017 Top National Producer. Get the lowdown…
Commissioners agree to mediated settlement with family of Florida Congressman Clay Shaw over negative impact of new runway at Fort Lauderdale Airport. When Broward County decided to expand the Fort Lauderdale Airport, adjacent landowners soon found themselves waterlogged. The culprit?…
The votes are in: 121,544 Wall Street Journal readers cast their ballots online, and Montana’s Dancing Wind Ranch, listed by Jim Taylor of Hall and Hall, took top honors as the newspaper’s House of the Year. The results were announced…
Single Bigger Acquires Prime Waterfowl Tract Along North Platte Thirty-one bidders registered for the auction of 770 acres located four miles west of Sutherland; more than 100 attended the January 30 sale. The acreage was offered in four parcels, including…
The Chicago Fed reports that a three-year slide in farmland values in the Seventh Federal Reserve District has come to an end. According to senior business economist David Oppedahl, an annual increase of 1 percent in nominal terms was recorded…
