A simple question -- “When should I sell my property?” -- has, as you might expect, no single or simple answer. The timing of any sale depends on...
Curtis Seltzer
The best show this side of the Northern Lights started this week in our back pasture on the north-facing bank of Key Run, a bratty little stream that...
New landowners usually fall into one of two categories when they think of themselves as sellers. They’re either flippers, looking to sell over the...
We in Virginia’s mountains are in harvest, as are farm communities across much of the Northern Hemisphere. Our four-day county fair celebrates our...
In a previous column, I described a situation where a young couple allowed themselves to be swept along in the emotion of buying a farm...
Labor Day on the farm is a work day. I read the Sunday papers a day late. (I call this work, because it’s arguably associated with writing a column.)...
Buyers usually invest their emotions into any property they pursue with a contract offer. When we like something, we want it.
What if I said to you that much of what we you eat every day amounts to an addictive drug that has captured our brains, rewired us into addicts...
How should a timberland buyer use his own forester’s accurate cruise information with a seller who has provided inflated volumes and values?
Health and health care are matters of concern in the American countryside as well as everywhere else. The research shows that we who live in rural...