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...
Owning Land
Do you own land? Learn the benefits and challenges of owning land including tax benefits, conservation, leasing, easements, income opportunities and maintenance. Get land smart!
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.
I don’t romanticize farm trucks. Mine doesn’t get Christmas presents like some do. And it’s not allowed up on my bed, even with clean feet.
Owning country property often raises unsettling questions about personal environmental morality, an idea that did not start with Jimmy Carter’s...
Land has always been involved in what we now call, rural economic development. Those who owned no land in rural communities were almost always poor...