How will interest rate drops affect land sales? Today is our quarterly economic update, covering interest rate impact on agriculture, land for sale, and new announcements from the USDA. Jackson Takach is the Chief Economist and Head of Strategy, Research, and Analytics for Farmer Mac, the secondary market for agricultural loans. He is here to help us make sense of our current economic environment. Jackson joins us once per quarter to discuss agricultural economics and land values throughout the United States. If you are interested in land or agriculture, this episode is required listening.

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Today we are talking to members of W.I.L.L., which stands for Women in Land Leadership. Let’s face it, when we are talking about agricultural land, hunting land, or timber investments the proportion of male to female will be skewed. This is an area of real estate that a lot of female agents have not considered and they should. Terri Jensen, Beth McLellan, and Claire Dee have a wide range of experience as we cover everything, from commercial development in England to hunting land in Missouri.

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Artificial Intelligence has ruled the headlines over the past year. Opinions on artificial intelligence have ranged from apocalyptic to useless. Today we are discussing the intersection of artificial intelligence and real estate with Washington-based land real estate agent, Ernest Peralta. Using AI to help evaluate properties, assessing overhead costs, streamlining processes, and what the future holds are all discussed. The buying and selling of land is a complex process and AI is one tool that gives a significant advantage to users.

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Conservation is a word that can have heavy political undertones and in some parts of the United States, it is a four-letter word. Often, conservation is pitted against landowners and agriculture as an either/or situation, and it shouldn’t be. Today, we are talking to Lesli Allison, CEO of the Western Landowners Alliance, an organization determined to change the relationship between landowners and conservation. This organization works with landowners, not against them to achieve terrific results in conservation.

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How do turkeys know when mating season starts? If you know the answer to that question, please don’t spoil it for the rest of the listeners. Turkeys, like deer, elk, and most other wildlife have a defined mating season at the same time each year. Actually, the only animals I could find that don’t have a mating season are the Golden Spiny Mouse, the Tree Kangaroo, the Musk Shrew, the Long-Thumbed Frog, and a short list of others. Today, Jason Lupardus, CEO of Turkeys for Tomorrow, tells us how turkeys time their mating season so accurately, what changes in their behavior, and why some turkeys start their struts early.

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Can you use your land for carbon credits? This is just one of the questions that gets answered on today's episode of the National Land Podcast. At the heart of today’s conversation is The Nectar Exchange, a non-profit group dedicated to conservation in land management. Doug Bruggeman is a Ph.D. in natural resource management, Steve Martin is a Professional Wetlands Scientist, and they’re both here today to tell us all about carbon credits. Their recent article titled Additionality of Voluntary Carbon Credits for Wetland, Stream, and Species Mitigation Activities in the United States serves as the backbone for this conversation.

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Every outdoors enthusiast has probably dreamed at some point of making a career guiding adventures in the outdoors. Today, we are talking to one of our new agents, Taylor Heithold, who works in South Carolina and Georgia. Taylor spent the past decade working as a guide all around the United States. He took the route of first going to guide school and then traveling with the seasons. Taylor is now putting this experience to use helping others to buy and sell land. This is Taylor’s journey from hunting guide to land sales.

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We are here with Georgia land real estate agent, Steve Chapman, and Dr. Yanshu Li of the Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources at the University of Georgia. Dr. Li is an associate professor of Forest Economics and Taxation and Steve Chapman is a forester with 35 years of experience, so this should give you a good idea of where the conversation is headed. We are here to discuss probably the most important part of harvesting timber and that is establishing your basis. Not establishing your timber basis is common and it can be a significant error when it comes time to harvest trees. This is the kind of episode that makes podcasts so amazing. It’s great information and you don’t even have to be a forester or timber investor to get into this stuff.

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