Early in the summer of 2018, a nonprofit few Nebraskans have heard of bought a 22,613-acre chunk of land in Garden County. The next year, the nonprofit, tied to a P.O. Box in Salt Lake City, picked up another 3,331 acres of county land, buying it from a Colorado investment…
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Center for Agricultural Profitability will host a webinar at noon Central time on Dec. 7, covering the Corporate Transparency Act and 2024 filing requirements for businesses, including many farms and ranches. In 2021, the U.S. Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act, which will require virtually all…
Who’s Buying Nebraska? Corporations, investors grabbing giant chunks of Nebraska farmland Seven out-of-state buyers, including a Utah church, a Philadelphia corporate farm and a California investment fund, spent nearly $250 million in the past five years on pricey Nebraska farmland, FFP analysis shows. There’s never a Black Friday discount when…
Turn south onto the blacktop out of this Cherry County ranch town, and the Sandhills seem to roll on for an eternity. “Wide-open spaces” aptly describes the endless prairie, where cowboys still work cattle on horseback and stargazers come to get away from city lights. You’re lucky to encounter another…
Darrell Holaday, Country Futures, breaks down the weekly commodity trade. The early part of the weeks trade was sideways for grain and livestock. Friday brought in heavy selling against the market. Darrell Holaday highlights how South American weather and export demand are playing into the current market picture. Check out…
For the week ending November 25th the Midwest sheep and goat market was thinly traded as would be expected for Thanksgiving week. I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving this past week. There were only 2 sales in our typical trade area this week. With that the market could be…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has named six members to the United Sorghum Checkoff Program’s Board of Directors. Among them, Tracy Zink from Indianola, Nebraska, is appointed as an At-Large Member for a three-year term starting December 2023. The 13-member United Sorghum Checkoff Program Board is composed of nine…
The Nebraska Brand Committee has a new executive director. The Committee voted 5-0 to hire Don Arp, the former head of the Nebraska Crime Commission, to replace outgoing Executive Director John Widdowson, during a special meeting on Wednesday, November 15. More from Tri-State Livestock News The announcement came after a…
There’s never a Black Friday discount when a piece of Nebraska farmland hits the market in 2023, be it a fertile field in the Platte River Valley or a vast swath of Sandhills pastureland. The market’s hot. And corporate farms, both in-state and out, are dipping into their deep pockets…
