Farmland Is at Risk in Every State

Every day, farmland continues to disappear across America.

Newly released statistics show that in this country, we’ve been losing more than an acre of farmland every minute. That stacks up to nearly one million acres per year converted to highways, shopping malls and poorly planned development. The recent National Resources Inventory, conducted by the USDA, shows

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Short 13 Million Acres, Let's Look Long-term...

We appreciate news editor Chris Koger’s perspective (“American Farmland Trust’s message misses the mark”), but we believe anyone in the U.S. who cares about the long-term health of the produce sector should be concerned with two issues: the loss of farm and ranch land and the increasing emphasis on healthy diets.

We recently issued a press

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