We have reserved this spot to display longer versions of those articles. So many of the laws regarding corporate ag land ownership may be non-issues when it comes to today s debates on consolidation in agriculture and the survival of family farmers. Of more importance today are laws regarding producer contract rights and other aspects of contract law. With that basic idea, it is no surprise most legislative proposals dealing with farming in recent years have been connected either to conservation or contracts. Only a handful, such as requirements of some livestock production facilities to be a certain distance apart on a certain amount of land, have had to do with land or land ownership.
Statistics show most Iowa farmland is owned by farmers or the sons and daughters of farmers.
Laws regarding foreign ownership of land or corporate ownership of land might still be useful, but are not major factors in today s debates about consolidation in agriculture.