By Kathleen Kingsbury BOSTON, March 19 (Reuters) - As a teenager in Wisconsin, Perry Vieth spent his summers baling ha...
Leah Mayor | Posted 03.23.2012
Even with a surge of interest in "local food" and its central relationship to individual, community and global health, somehow it remains difficult for many of us to make the connection between the food we eat and the land that is required to grow it.
Neysa King | Posted 03.06.2012
I began Dissertation to Dirt hoping to answer a single question: can young Americans make a career of farming? It may not seem compelling at first, but that question is the heart of the food movement.
Reuters | Posted 02.10.2012
AUCTIONS IN VOGUE This hunger among farmers has prompted more sellers to put their land up for public bidding to see w...
AP | By JOSH FUNK | Posted 01.15.2012
OMAHA, Neb. -- The average value of farmland in several Midwestern and Western states grew 25 percent over the past year in the biggest one-year jump ...
Posted 09.21.2011
(Christine Stebbins) - Soaring farmland values in the past year are causing worries among agricultural bankers that a farmland "bubble" may be bre...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 08.19.2011
Food offers this nation the opportunity not only to reconnect once again with its agricultural roots, but to assume a role of visionary leadership.
TIME.com | Stephen Gandel | Posted 08.03.2011
This is usually a slow time of the year for farm sales. It's past prime planting season. Yet, Sam Kain, Des Moines area manager for land sales at Farm...
AP | By JAY ALABASTER | Posted 05.26.2011
SENDAI, Japan -- The rice paddies on the outskirts of this tsunami-hit city are ankle-deep in a black, salty sludge. Crumpled cars and uprooted trees ...
nytimes.com | William Nueman | Posted 05.25.2011
But as prices for agricultural land surge across America's grain belt, regulators are warning that a new real estate bubble may be forming -- echoing ...
bloomberg.com | Jon Erlichman and Dakin Campbell | Posted 05.25.2011
Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Burry, the former hedge-fund manager who predicted the housing market's plunge, said he is investing in farmable land, ...
Shane Snow | Posted 05.25.2011
60 million players of FarmVille have farmed 500 million acres of digital strawberries, corn, watermelons and more. Contrast that with the 930 million acres of actual farmland in America.
Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012