Over the years, I’ve become less enthusiastic about conservation easements as they apply to timberland.
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A number of timberland owners now find themselves in a pickle like this: They need to get some cash out of their timberland, but don’t want to...
You may have heard something about BCAP (pronounced, bee-cap). BCAP stands for Biomass Crop Assistance Program.
USDA released its 2010 farm income forecasts last week. While net farm income is expected to be $63 billion in 2010, up almost 12 percent ($6.7...
Rural counties largely depend on the property tax to finance their activities. Taxing real estate for local government is a legacy from the days when...
Health-food advocates have kicked beef in the butt for more than 30 years. Bad for your heart, bad for your weight, bad for your risk of disease and...
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...
As a native Floridian I have seen a lot of change. Growing up in north Lakeland, I was surrounded by beautiful citrus groves that eventually gave way...
Adding intensive food plots to smaller recreational land parcels can increase the number of game by as much as 10-fold and make a recreational...
Of America’s 75 million single-family detached homes, the overwhelming majority were not built to be examples of environmental correctness.