Teresa Opheim, The Des Moines Register ~ The United States will experience a monumental shift in farmland ownership. Thirty-one percent of U.S. agricultural land is owned by non-operator landlords. In Iowa, 35 percent of Iowa farmland is owned by people over 75 years of age. At the same time, there is a surge in those who are wanting to farm. Practical Farmers has 1,600 of these beginning farmers in its network alone.
What’s to be done? Well, if you own farmland, how about a little soul searching about the future of that land? What matters most for Iowa, for agriculture? Could you seek out and sell that land to the next generation of farmers?
Practical Farmers has just announced its Farmland Owner Award winner for 2015: Siblings Faith Sherman of Des Moines, Dale Nimrod of Decorah and Vance Nimrod of Mississippi. They sold the farmland they inherited, and sold their farmland to a local farm family at a below-market value price.
The Farmland Owner Award is given to non-operator landlords who use their land to advance stewardship and help get the next generation started on the land. With this award, Practical Farmers is calling attention to the huge role non-operator farmland owners play in the future success of sustainable agriculture.............
What’s to be done? Well, if you own farmland, how about a little soul searching about the future of that land? What matters most for Iowa, for agriculture? Could you seek out and sell that land to the next generation of farmers?
Practical Farmers has just announced its Farmland Owner Award winner for 2015: Siblings Faith Sherman of Des Moines, Dale Nimrod of Decorah and Vance Nimrod of Mississippi. They sold the farmland they inherited, and sold their farmland to a local farm family at a below-market value price.
The Farmland Owner Award is given to non-operator landlords who use their land to advance stewardship and help get the next generation started on the land. With this award, Practical Farmers is calling attention to the huge role non-operator farmland owners play in the future success of sustainable agriculture.............
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