More than a year has passed since starting this blog and in that time I have been witness to the transfer of more than 2000 acres of land for...
Ben Alder
Ben joined Sperry Van Ness – Miller Commercial Real Estate in December 2011 after working with Coldwell Banker while specializing in land and farm sales since 2004. Ben attended The George Washington University where he obtained degrees in Biology and Environmental Science and is currently working to complete a Master’s degree in resource management. Ben’s services focus primarily on assisting clients to make sound decisions about their land holdings and whether to buy, sell, conserve, hold or develop their land assets. Ben’s real property transactional experience has been focused on farmland and entitled land for any array of land uses. To date, he has closed transactions on over 4000 acres of land in Maryland totaling over $25M in sales since 2004.
This amazing photograph was taken by my wife Debra one afternoon while she was sitting on a deck on Pamlico Sound in North Carolina with her favorite...
So there I was at 23 years old, standing on a former bean field watching the excavator and bull dozer work diligently to not have any wasted motions...
I am an Austrian Winter Pea working hard this cold winter to improve the land where I was planted. Last October, I was mixed in with some rye and...
According to the 1945 census there were 41,275 farms in the State of Maryland; 31,008, or approximately 77% of this number, were operated by owners...
After much uncertainty during the cold wet spring and heavy drenching rains of early summer there was doubt on some farms if the seed would even stay...
Several months ago I wrote about farmland investing, and I recently picked up a book titled Investor’s Guide to Farmland written by Greyson S. Colvin...
According to Doane advisory services, farms in the Midwest states managed to plant 43% of the estimated corn acreage during the third week of May.
While attending the Global Agribusiness Summit at Millikin University in Illinois Brett Begemann, President and Chief Commercial Officer of Monsanto...