Posted 24 January 2012 - 09:25 AM (#1)
Reclaiming Farmland
Farmers Take Back Land Slated for Housing
It’s not often that our morning commute gets us excited for the workday. But today we heard a story on the radio that caused us to bump up the speedometer a bit. The story was titled “Farmers Take Back Land Slated for Housing.”
Over the past 30 years, land development trends have been such that farmland has been lost to development at an ever-increasing rate. In fact, between 1982 and 2007 the US lost more than an acre of farmland every minute. When the housing bubble burst in 2008, that process was stopped. In many ways, the burst has been a tragedy with the millions of homeowners who faced foreclosure. However, one silver lining that has appeared has been the return of lands slated for development back to farmland.
Indeed, in the story we heard this morning, one farmer who sold his land to a developer for $80,000 an acre has since bought it back at a heavily discounted $18,500 an acre and has returned it to agricultural use. Further, more and more young farmers are entering the field by leasing lands and living on the profits they make from selling high-value commodities like cotton and hay. We encourage you to have a listen by
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Founded in 1993, Field Sport Concepts, Ltd. (www.fieldsport.com) is an affiliation of nationally respected consultants in the disciplines of resource and land planning, engineering, landscape architecture, equestrian architecture, environmental sciences, conservation finance, and field sport facility/venue design. Committed to sustainable ownership and rural land preservation, our organization offers a comprehensive resource aimed at presenting landowners with economically feasible and sustainable strategies for short and long-term land-use and conservation. Most importantly, it represents a unique collaboration where otherwise independent specialists are brought together to comprehensively enhance rural properties with a focus toward conservation and the provision of opportunities for field sport activities.
FSC offers comprehensive services to plan and develop field sport programs including equestrian, shooting, hunting, fishing, falconry, and high adventure sports. These activities are also complemented by conservation finance services including easements and monetization of ecosystem services. Our strength lies in being able to fully unlock the economic and recreational potential of a property by planning for multiple compatible uses such as appropriate sporting programs, in combination with conservation easements; habitat restoration; comprehensive wildlife, natural resource, and timber management; habitat or wetland banking, and agriculture. Combining our range of expertise with our passion for the outdoors, we seek ways to enhance rural properties in a manner that is sympathetic to the natural environment while providing opportunities for the pursuit and appreciation of the sporting life.
Please visit our website at
http://www.fieldsport.com/
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