When you buy farmland, you’re not just buying acres and yield potential — you’re also buying the residual fertility already in the soil. And for many growers, that piece of the investment gets overlooked. Residual soil fertility, also called legacy…
Every year, 2.5 percent of America’s farmland (including land used to produce crops and timber, plus pasture) changes hands through sale or inheritance — translating to roughly 20-22 million acres annually*. For growers navigating those transactions, the focus is often…