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Beyond Price Per Acre: Broker Johnny Klemme on the True Value of Farmland

In a world where farmland prices continue to dominate headlines and coffee shop conversations, Johnny Klemme invites us to look deeper — beyond the numbers, beyond the market reports — to explore what value really means. Klemme is an advisor, mediator, broker, auctioneer, and family farmer, as well as co-owner of Geswein Farm & Land Realty in Lafayette, Indiana. Johnny Klemme bio: Geswein Farm & Land Realty – Co-Owner, Advisor, Broker, Auctioneer Family Farmer – West Lafayet

Dave Price

4 days ago

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Many U.S. Cattle Ranchers Oppose New Beef Imports from Argentina

President Donald Trump’s plan to quadruple beef imports from Argentina has drawn sharp criticism from U.S. cattle ranchers who warn the move could devastate domestic producers. Ranchers, already strained by drought, wildfires, and high input costs, say cheaper Argentine beef could undercut a recovering U.S. market. While the administration argues that increased imports may lower prices for consumers, industry leaders like Justin Tupper of the U.S.

Dave Price

4 days ago2 min read

New York Farm Listing Price: $90 Million

A historic New York farm could soon set a record in the Hudson Valley with a staggering $90 million listing price. Known as Mill Farm, the 2,150-acre property in Ancramdale has been assembled over 43 years by investment banker Daniel Slott and features 15 barns, 10 homes, a waterfall, and organic-certified hay fields. Surrounded by conservation land and just two hours from Manhattan, the farm is billed by Compass as a “living landmark” and one of the largest working farms nea

Dave Price

4 days ago3 min read

Bring Back USAID, Famous Chef José Andrés Advises the President

At the Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa, world-renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés called on President Donald Trump to restore the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Andrés—whose nonprofit World Central Kitchen has fed millions in disaster zones—warned that dismantling USAID endangers lives worldwide by cutting off access to food, water, and health aid.

Dave Price

4 days ago2 min read

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Beyond Price Per Acre: Broker Johnny Klemme on the True Value of Farmland

In a world where farmland prices continue to dominate headlines and coffee shop conversations, Johnny Klemme invites us to look deeper — beyond the numbers, beyond the market reports — to explore what value really means. Klemme is an advisor, mediator, broker, auctioneer, and family farmer, as well as co-owner of Geswein Farm & Land Realty in Lafayette, Indiana. Johnny Klemme bio: Geswein Farm & Land Realty – Co-Owner, Advisor, Broker, Auctioneer Family Farmer – West Lafayet

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Dave Price

4 days ago4 min read

Many U.S. Cattle Ranchers Oppose New Beef Imports from Argentina

President Donald Trump’s plan to quadruple beef imports from Argentina has drawn sharp criticism from U.S. cattle ranchers who warn the move could devastate domestic producers. Ranchers, already strained by drought, wildfires, and high input costs, say cheaper Argentine beef could undercut a recovering U.S. market. While the administration argues that increased imports may lower prices for consumers, industry leaders like Justin Tupper of the U.S.

LIVESTOCK & ANIMAL HEALTH (LIV)

Dave Price

4 days ago2 min read

New York Farm Listing Price: $90 Million

A historic New York farm could soon set a record in the Hudson Valley with a staggering $90 million listing price. Known as Mill Farm, the 2,150-acre property in Ancramdale has been assembled over 43 years by investment banker Daniel Slott and features 15 barns, 10 homes, a waterfall, and organic-certified hay fields. Surrounded by conservation land and just two hours from Manhattan, the farm is billed by Compass as a “living landmark” and one of the largest working farms nea

FARMLAND FINANCE & INVESTMENT (FIN)

Dave Price

4 days ago3 min read

Bring Back USAID, Famous Chef José Andrés Advises the President

At the Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa, world-renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés called on President Donald Trump to restore the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Andrés—whose nonprofit World Central Kitchen has fed millions in disaster zones—warned that dismantling USAID endangers lives worldwide by cutting off access to food, water, and health aid.

POLICY, POLITICS, & GOVERNMENT

Dave Price

4 days ago2 min read

Historic Indiana Farm Sale Highlights Innovative Underground Irrigation System

When a 150-year-old farm in west-central Indiana went up for auction this September, there were a couple of things that made it stand out from the typical properties in the Midwest. First, the land had been in the same family since just after the Civil War — a rare legacy in the farming community. But it was the second detail that surprised the realtor handling the sale. “They had created a reverse irrigation or subsurface irrigation system. I’ve never sold a farm with that b

FARMLAND FINANCE & INVESTMENT (FIN)

Brooke Bouma Kohlsdorf

Oct 172 min read

Grain Bin Collapse in Illinois

An Illinois community watched more than 30,000 bushes of soybeans spilling out, workers scurrying for safety, and parts of town temporarily losing power. But it avoided serious injuries when a grain bin collapsed. The video shows the moments before the bin fell and then the eventual collapse. The grain bin was 90 feet tall and had stood in town since 1972 until it gave way. Witnesses noticed a bulge forming in the concrete and rebar, according to WCIA-TV in Champaign , bef

COMMODITIES & CROP MANAGEMENT

Dave Price

Oct 171 min read

LendingTree CEO Died in Accident on Family Farm

A financial leader who committed to the health of rural families and bought a farm in western North Carolina to reconnect with his farm roots died on the farm in an all-terrain vehicle accident, according to North Carolina authorities. Doug Lebda was the founder, chairman, and CEO of LendingTree, the online lending institution headquartered in Charlotte and established in 1996. Authorities say Lebda had been riding on an ATV last Sunday on the family’s property. A family memb

CULTURE & EVENTS

Dave Price

Oct 172 min read

Trump Administration Considers Doubling Aid to Soybean Rival Argentina

As family farmers continue to wait for an aid package that President Donald Trump last month claimed that he could fund with tariff revenue, they now watch as the administration considers doubling its financial support for Argentina. The partial shutdown of the federal government could be slowing Trump’s $10+ billion package for U.S. farmers. But the optics of working on giving Trump’s political ally, Argentine President Javier Milei, four times that much doesn’t sit well wit

FARMLAND FINANCE & INVESTMENT (FIN)

Dave Price

Oct 172 min read

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‘Devastation,’ Land O’Lakes CEO Calls Situation for Many U.S. Farmers

Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford wanted to stress the urgency of the situation. “What is happening right now is devastation,” Ford said of the struggles of many American farmers. Ford was one of the featured speakers at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Fortune began the series in 1998 to highly some of the most influential women in business. Ford has served as CEO of Land O’Lakes, the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based agricultural cooperative, since

POLICY, POLITICS, & GOVERNMENT

Dave Price

Oct 172 min read

Mushroom Farmer Mallory DeVries: Why She Stopped Farming Despite Success

Mallory Devries was growing more specialty mushrooms than she could have imagined. The operation in an adjoining tent to their home was becoming so big that she and her husband realized that they would need outside labor to handle it all. Customers showed up from miles around.

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

Dave Price

Oct 174 min read

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Government Shutdown Limits Resources for Farmers

Farmers and farmland investors would like to harvest some optimism in their fall fields that the partial federal government shutdown can...

POLICY, POLITICS, & GOVERNMENT

Dave Price

Oct 103 min read

U.S. Pear Harvest Expected to Be Much Larger than 2024

The chill of deep winter freezes and late spring frosts have thawed to a much larger expected pear harvest this year, according to USA...

Dave Price

Oct 103 min read

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Beyond Price Per Acre: Broker Johnny Klemme on the True Value of Farmland

In a world where farmland prices continue to dominate headlines and coffee shop conversations, Johnny Klemme invites us to look deeper — beyond the numbers, beyond the market reports — to explore what value really means. Klemme is an advisor, mediator, broker, auctioneer, and family farmer, as well as co-owner of Geswein Farm & Land Realty in Lafayette, Indiana. Johnny Klemme bio: Geswein Farm & Land Realty – Co-Owner, Advisor, Broker, Auctioneer Family Farmer – West Lafayet

4 days ago4 min read

Mushroom Farmer Mallory DeVries: Why She Stopped Farming Despite Success

Mallory Devries was growing more specialty mushrooms than she could have imagined. The operation in an adjoining tent to their home was becoming so big that she and her husband realized that they would need outside labor to handle it all. Customers showed up from miles around.

Oct 174 min read

Shrimp Farmer Karlanea Brown: Catching New Opportunities

Global seafood demand is rising. So are tariffs on imports. Karlanea Brown sees opportunity for others to join the business that had never been her life’s plan.

Oct 103 min read

Dr. Dave Muth: How Wind Turbines Affect Farmland Value

As renewable energy looks to strengthen the rural landscape, wind turbines have offered a source of power and income even as changing federal policies and organized local opposition threaten to stymie the speed of that growth.

Oct 33 min read

“Applegirlkait”: Washington Entrepreneur Sells Americans on Apples and Pears

Changing consumer tastes, ever-rising labor costs, market oversupply, and elusive profits. Those make for a bushel basket of core problems for apple growers like Kait Thornton or “applegirlkait” as she is known to her 350,000 TikTok followers and 240,000 followers on Instagram.

Sep 263 min read

Keith Hu: Trade War Pushes Northwest Cherry Growers to Switch from China to India

The potential of Chinese consumers to provide the stable export market for cherry producers in America’s Northwest feels largely out of...

Sep 193 min read

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