They’re not making any more farmland.
That’s what Ruth Rabinowitz’s father used to tell her. He’d grown up poor in the great depression and, after putting
They’re not making any more farmland. According to the USDA, the number of acres rented out has remained steady over the last 50 years, at around 40 percent. The difference is the landowner is increasingly not the farmer next door or a landlord intimately involved in the farming operation. Instead,
State laws on foreign ownership of agricultural land vary widely, ranging from prohibiting foreign ownership to restrictions on the number of acres to no regulations at all.
