I'm a firm believer that only American citizens should be allowed to buy property, houses, or businesses. If you are not a citizen then you can rent or lease, I'm fine with that but this is America and it should be owned only by Americans.
@@BuckeyeFan-ty4vr Builders need jobs too, but the inner cities need to be rehabilitated. Rebuild the slum land and give people a better place to live and they won't need the farm land. I agree with Chuck ...our greed could be our down fall as a nation, if we don't protect the farm land.
That is BS and you know it. I have a green card, was looking into becoming a citizen. The only difference is, you can vote. After Carter gave up the election before California even voted, after I see, how American citizens are abused by politicians vs ILLEGALS. I have every right to spend my hard earned money as I see fit. I bought a ranch. I am putting it into a trust, NEVER to be sold for anything but farming.. my childre contibute to society, bever on welfare, we are a military family, we bring skills and knowledge to the table.I feed people,I farm and ranch. How about supporting farmers/ ranchers instead of making non citizens tgmge boogey man. I am more patriotic than many so called Americans,who are only out for a fast buck.
My grandfather is 95 and not getting any younger. My wife and myself have already spoke to my father and his siblings about buying the 8 1/2 acres as soon as my father passes. It is important to us to keep farming the land and keeping it in our family. Especially here in California. Good video, couldn’t agree with you more!
We have raised a generation of people who have no idea what it takes to feed the masses. They haven't been taught to value and honor those who produce, or how their meals begin.
You are absolutely right. We are losing our home town farmers. It’s so sad when that happens. God bless you and your beautiful wife and family and fur family. 🙋🏻♀️❤️🇺🇸
Winston Salem here and I'm over the growth. Born here and used to you could be pretty much anywhere is 15-20 minutes. Now the traffic is becoming Charlotte like..
Here in Texas they are doing the same thing. Building houses and apartments on historical farm land. It’s unbelievable how much development that has been done and is still being done.
Can’t speak for any area but eastern Kentucky but I’m a 27 year old farmer know hundreds of 20 something year old farmers around me. The money can be waved all around we stand strong on family traditions and our heritage. Im very confident our farms will stand for generations to come. God bless y’all and I appreciate your information and knowledge on the subject
Thank You, Thank You, you are exactly right. we say it every day. just here in stokes county all you have to do is drive through King, what was once beautiful farm land is now housing developments. when I first saw the title I was like humm? wonder what this is going to be about. But wow you knocked it out of the park. A message like this needs to be said because my goodness if North Carolina continues to do what its doing there really isn't going to be any farmland left. while its nice that we have a really good economy here in NC it comes with a cost. And its very sad to see all these old family farms just get sold off like they never meant a thing. I personally don't see how someone could sell grandpas farm to a developer and keep a clean conscious but I'm starting to think we're a dying breed
Young farmer here (29) here in Appalachia we have plenty of land available for farming just waiting for the right person. I pray one day I’m the person to do so.
We are in Franklin, adjoining wake and Johnston county with 100 acres of 5 generation family farm. Our land value from county tax dept. Just more than tripled. I don't know how ill keep it and don't really want to. Population on my road is 10x what it was 5 years ago. If I sell we will buy a farm further out. May be no choice. Used to be 18 farms on our road. We are 1 of 2 left.
That's a very good point, I really didn't think about but that's probably in the plan, make taxes so high you can't afford to keep the land and then you have no choice but to sell to a developer. its a very sad situation.
Yeah. I'd thought about selling because I do not want to hear my neighbors, or have to keep my dog in a fence, or scared to cross the road on the tractor. But now, im really ready to peace out. We already know where we will look for the next farm. There's 1 foodlion in that whole county 😂
See all of our tax value has gone up. You have 100 acres, a farmers dream, a 5 generation family farm. You are who the farmers we are talking about. Why would you buy a farm further out? Why would you farm after making millions and millions for the farm you own now? No farmer can afford what you will ask so it will only go to developers, unless you make it affordable. There is always a choice. Put it in a land trust to protect it, they will pay you. Then if that is not ebough to fill your pockets then sell it. A least then the land will be protected.
We are in Brunswick county on the southern coast of north Carolina in a small town of 3000 people. The local government approved a new development that is massive - 7000 new residents are estimated to be housed in this new development with an average home price of $300,000
I agree with a lot of what you said. Sadly the young people who are not raised in the country or on a farm have no idea where their food comes from. I do believe things are starting to turn around.
In my neck of the woods, SE Michigan, our farmland is being gobbled up by "clean energy". Locally, we the people, are trying to fight off these huge solar companies that are coming in making deals the landowners can't refuse. Many cases of conflicts of interest with landowners that have a connection to, or are in local governments. The solar companies offer them $1500/acre to lease for 20+ years. Thats 15 million dollars for a 500 acre piece of land over the 20 years. But what the uninformed do not know is the environmental impact that it will have for decades to come. Not to mention the property value of all the surrounding properties. Folks, industrial solar farms are not the rainbows and unicorn farts that the skinny jean wearing folks will tell you it is. Pay attention to what your local governments are up to. They are as corrupt as the rest of our governments.
Chuck, Your comments about folks selling agricultural lands to developers, is interesting, but what is more shocking to me is the sale to the Chinese a few years ago of SMITHSFIELD PACKING which processes 26,000 hogs EVERY DAY. THAT is far more devastating than the loss of a few acres to local development. Jimmy
I’m in Union county, south of Charlotte, still one of the top ag counties in NC. It’s sickening watching the housing developments spread like cancer out from Charlotte across our state.
The last little while I have had two songs in my head that go along with this. “This is my dirt” by Justin Moore and “Dirt Cheap” by Cody Johnson. I love both of them for the same reason.
We bought the family land so we could keep it rural. Nashville is growing and many of us want to keep the rural countries rural. Many of the people my age in this area are trying to buy up what we can to homestead and farm so we aren't dependent on the system.
You're definitely not lying. I totally agree. Here in Arizona there were hundreds of miles of orchards farms ranchers most have been run out of business others gave up . Our state does not back up or help the little to medium farmers ranchers ect but if your a big corporation of any profession there right there to kiss your butt give or sale you land at $ 20.00 an acre. Charge you no taxes. That's Az. way and screw the little guy. I'd like the same deal on the land myself There would be no houses condos or apartments. Just veggies fruits and meat.
One of the problems I've seen is farm kids see their folks farming a lot of land but never showing much of a profit or even ever getting out of debt. So the kids look for better paying opportunities. Even their parents are advising them to look for different careers outside of farming. And Chuck your list of remedies for you guys illness left out the silver bullet, CHICKEN SOUP, and you're a chicken producer, my my my. God bless you both, get well soon.
@@CliffsideStables Oh no it's a cold and flu season must around this house. I've had my Granddaughter call from two towns west and say "Grandpa I'm sick, I need the soup". I have to use a store bought chicken but I'll bet a farm raised one would super charge the soup.😀
And pretty much no bugs and noBS. I've never seen anyone do this, i had a dream 4 year's ago about this and god gave me the solution,and it's nothing short of a miracle
Needed to hear this today. Having land/animals/ kid/ and two working parents is tough. There are good days and bad days. The bad days make you feel like it’s not worth it while the good days give hope. It’s a pendulum.
In my area, farmland is also being sold/ leased for solar generation. I live across the street from 500-ish acres that's applied for a permit for solar. I wonder how long it's going to be before there isn't enough fertile land to feed the country.
Don't even get me started on Davie County! We have lived here just 4 1/2 years and it has gotten ridiculous in just that short amount of time! Sad to see the decline in the name of progress. I also believe our children(the future leaders of our country) have been indoctrinated to believe jobs such as farming where you work with your hands/mind/back and not technology then you will be considered less than in society. What they aren't realizing is that those jobs are what keeps the world going. Just my two cents
It's actually an opportunity. My little farm in nj is now surrounded by developments. Little competition and a whole ton of people to sell to. Always sell out with little effort. Sold out before the meat is of size.
Just saw Bozeman Montana, really sad what's going on up there prime ranching and farm land developed into ugly suburbs. Packed . I've seen this every where I lived .They never promoted agriculture in schools . Never taught us to grow and raise food . We have been sold consumerism . You can't eat junk .and we have been buying stuff we didn't need and hording . I am sixty six . I agree with you but we need to go back into farming .the tech jobs are bunk . Thankyou .
That's kind of the same as shooter years ago when I used to work my grandfather's land picking rocks office fields and making ditches with one on rock on one side one rock on the other side one rock on top cover with all your plastic and cardboard in Liberia it was very hard work back then and I worked with him all the time I was kind of mad because all of the elder kids got Piece of property small piece but a piece and there was me Little older cousin that never got anything from him and we were the only ones that helped them and worked the land but he was so old fashioned it was always the elder kids that got stuff and they used to own a lot of land and they sold some every year so they could go to Do you travel in the winter instead of staying here which is fine and nice for them but all the land got subdivided into city subdivisions were I used to dig my worms it was nice beautiful black topsoil because it was a swampy part of the property I watched them push the growl pit that was above that area right over top of all that nice beautiful topsoil we used to call it black gold so now all of Morrison land and Courtney is all houses all the way down Morrison Creek is all houses and they've even got their fences going right to the creek which is not allowed you're not allowed to build beside a creek within 10 feet of the creek so people can walk down it along the edge the creek is getting very small now compared to what it used to be when we're kids because we used to have our kayaks in it now you can't because it's all the land that that Creek is on is all subdivided except for one area that my grandfather's brother donated to the city that's another thing every time you you develop any land here in Courtney you have to give the city 5 acres I ground for years ago donated a chunk of land to the city for a temporary dump but after they were done with it they were supposed to clean it up and change it into park but they never did They used to own hundreds of acres our families lived here probably close to a 100 to 200 years
You are so correct that I see this here in Florida every day that farm and ranch lands are becoming housing developments and it is so sad to see this 😢😢
Y'all need Amish out there. They keep the land for the best, not the better. In Indiana, we used to get an acre for 1500 to 2000. Hard to find it under 8k now.
Well made points here. I think there are a few heavy drivers for the farmland disappearing this way: 1. Increase in taxes. 2. Divergence between home pricing and median income. - Probably has to do with going off the gold standard, inflation, and home size. 3. Consumerism. - home sizes have generally increased and people want/expect larger homes and pricing themselves out of more land.
In some places close to the cities. If they don't sell, they'll just take it by eminent domain. I've seen it where I used to live. And I do agree with you 100%.
Here in Southern New England, it is a very real problem. When someone passes and leaves 10 acres or so, the person who inherits the land can sell it for $100,000 per acre or grow veggies on it. What would any of us do?
You missed out when you said is being sold to those who are putting up vinyl siding concrete or whatever you forgot to say those who own that have skinny jeans
Yes, urban sprawl is definitely taking thousands of acres of prime farmland all across the country. It's bad in the Midwest, but even worse in the coastal and southern states. People would be surprised at how much of our land is owned by foreign corporations and citizens. If we were to remove the ability of foreign companies to purchase land here, it would be devastating to our economy (what's left of it anyway). Foreign countries invest a lot into our country in tax revenue and employ a lot of workers. With that said, I do think we need some restrictions on who can buy and limits on how much they can own as well as for what purpose. No foreign company or country should be able to control the majority of any market sector like China does our pork industry for one example. There should be a limit to how much a single foreign company can own and a limit to how much land the companies from a single country combined can own. We used to have laws in place to protect us against both foreign and domestic monopolies, but this globalist movement tricked the population by pushing their "bigger corporations are more efficient which leads to lower prices and allows our companies to compete globally" crap. The key to capitalism is competition because competition forces efficiency which leads to lower prices. Our government started choosing the winners and losers and allowing the big corps to gobble up all their competition and now they can charge whatever they want and produce inferior products and nobody is holding them accountable. Today, it is these huge corporations and the extremely wealthy like Billy G who are buying up the bulk of the agricultural land in the western states. In their climate scam they will remove the land from production in exchange for their carbon credits. Many are even selling off the water rights to the land which is destructive to the land and will prevent it from being used for agriculture in the future. They get to claim they're giving it back to nature to save the planet, but without the natural water cycles it will change the climate for the worst. It is also giving them control of our food production which allows them to force us onto their fake food. The green movement has been hijacked by corporations and globalist freaks who with destroy it to empower and enrich themselves further. But never fear because the globalist have a much more sinister plan for us. By the end of this year, just the gotaways that crossed our southern border will outnumber our active military members by a quarter of a million. No joke. This doesn't include any of the "migrants" that have been processed into the country without any need for proper ID or credentials. These are just those who were seen and evaded our law enforcement. How many weren't seen? Why would anyone skip all the wonderful freebies Biden offers through his welcoming committee at the border? Think about that.
Unfortunately the term land is worth more for development then it is for farming is becoming more and more true each day. Makes it very hard on us small scale farms who want to buy land. This is a topic for all to be concerned about. Land bought by foreign companies or a developer is a threat to our agriculture industry
They that are selling/developing the properties don't care because they are looking for a quick buck. They will not see the results of their decision during their life time and then it will be too late.
we're currently looking for land in Washington state to raise livestock on. Nearly every piece of farmland we look is already owned by big finance firms. Most of these parcels are for sale at prices 500-1000% higher than those firms bought the property for only 2-3 years ago. They find farms before they hit the market, buy em up, then turn them into smaller 10-20 acre lots and sell them to people in the cities who end up building Airnbnbs or weekend homes on the land. There really ought to be a law... I hate to say it, but the only way to preserve farmland is to restrict it's use for development. European countries do that. You can't just buy farmland in The netherlands or germany and build a subdivision. It's nearly impossible. They decided a century ago to protect farmland and restrict urban development. That's why you don't see 4000sq ft homes on 5 acre lots in Denmark! If you bring up the very idea of restricting private property rights in the USA, you end up plssling a lot of people off. I honestly don't think Americans, especially boomers, have it in them to support the type of property restrictions necessary to save the land.
Why are you looking in Washington? They have a place called Seattle there, and they have some strange voting habits. Anyways, good luck in your endeavors.
@@dash1bravo24 we like washington. It's a beautiful place and we can't imagine moving away. This is our home. We're also a Lesbian couple and its simply not safe for us to live in the south, or even in states like Idaho. We have legal protections in Washington. Seattle is just one city. Most of Washington is BLM or farmland. The problem with land grabs here isn't so much folks in Seattle, as it is huge financial firms that aren't from here, and that are buying and selling millions of acres of land. Every state has a Seattle. Just listen to the original video... even North Carolina is loosing it's farmland.
@@SofiaFreja Blue states are all about control, censorship, and restricting liberties. Washington is no bueno. FYI, there's lots of different people in the south, not sure where you've been getting your information from. Be mindful of all the propaganda out there.
I used to live in Commiefornia (but thankfully in one of the few conservative counties), Sierra foothills, ag area know for tree crops (cherries, mandarins, etc). Urban sprawl wanted to start building like you’re talking about & the citizens flooded the city council meetings, mayors office, etc. and prevented all growth except a gas station at their one freeway off-ramp! Greg Judy just purchased a 100+ acres from a developer that was destined to have 30 homesites on prime pasture land. Luckily the developer couldn’t get the water as easily as he expected so was willing to sell 👏🤎
This is our problem in FL. We are an hour away from our closest big city. And they are growing closer and closer to us. Not with new farms but new subdivisions at one acre plots and apartments.
Reality is, its work 7 days, and no one gets rich being a farmer. There are far more high paying jobs out there, with better benefits and vacation. At the end of the day, someone has too! We are biting the very hand that is feeding us.
Im in the midwest looking to buy farm land... i have noticed a lot of parcels owned by the state/states and trying to obtain info on purchasing the land is difficult so far i haven't been able to get in contact with the right state agency... feels like some GATE KEEPING going on
The county that I live in wants housing so they tax the farmland into selling. We are having millions more people to house and feed from all over the world.
I farm in PA and have to lease land. I can't find anyone that wants to sell large acreage at a reasonable price. I do certified organic and regular land takes 3 years to certify. So it's impossible to pay $15k-$20k an acre then not plant for 3 years. Prices are insane and federal grant money is in the wrong places
You just totally summarized the issue in my province of Ontario, and sorry it's a totally conservative government ravaging our enevironmetal areas and farmland with graft front and center.
There was a man just down the road from me that owned probably around five acres and the city wanted to come out this way he refused to go into the city so it stopped them he died and his kids sold all the property now the city I am in the city because we voted yes there's like five houses on our road we voted yes to go into the city because they promised us city sewer and most accepted fields around here are no good so what happened to our city sewer we still haven't got it after probably 10 years they just bypassed us because it wasn't enough houses on this road we're third while so here now I'm in the city dealing with all the city rats that are all over my property seven years ago we never had any rats here but now there's hundreds of them I can look out at my cameras last year and see 50 60 rats running around my yard eating my garden destroy my house and these rats are the same size as a Chihuahua dog they're huge they can jump three feet I had to put 10 all around my edge of the rafters of my house so they couldn't get up to my roof but they still find a way and they're destroying my house I couldn't sell this I was if I tried because they've chewed wires apart in the walls the installation up there is all blowing in installation and so covered in rat poop rat P so now I'm tried all of the traps that man makes and that'll work because Roger too smart once they're getting caught once or twice in a trap they will not go into that trap I watched the young ones that run through my pallets I have standing up going around my garden where I put the traps they run right through it so fast they set the traps off and come back and eat the bait so all this winter I've been using poison yeah no one likes poison but you know what when it comes down to my garden in my house I'm going to poison tired of it now you don't see rats at night I go through $150 a month on rat poisoning so this summer I may be able to have some of my garden they eat all my beats they ate all my carrots they ate all my cherry tomatoes they chewed on all my turnips
This is not China's fault. The US sells farmland to multiple countries, which makes it difficult for citizens to purchase farmland. They are making it difficult for the new generation to become farmers. Plus, in 2023, at least 81 bills banning Chinese ownership of U.S. land were introduced across 33 states. According to a USDA Farm Service Agency report, of all foreign-owned U.S. land, Canadian investors owned the most at 12.8 million acres. This makes up 31% of all foreign-owned U.S. land. Four other countries held 12.4 million acres combined, or another 31% of foreign-owned land: the Netherlands (12%), Italy (7%), the United Kingdom (6%), and Germany (6%). China holds less than 1%. The remaining 15.6 million acres are split up among around 100 other countries, including India, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.
Urban sprawl and suburban sprawl have been happening forever. I don't think there's any way out of it. Also, there are simply more people on Earth and they have to live somewhere.
The thing is if things keep going the direction they are there will be no farm life to show. See like mentioned in another comment, Eventually the taxes and traffic get to the point that the farmer or landowner is forced to move out. While you might not want to hear about it the simple fact is something is going to have to be done to save our farms
Isn't selling off the land to developers the very essence of capitalism? Shouldn't the people who own the land have the option? Apologies, you lost me at saying something as stupid as calling California "Commiefornia".