Energy Projects Reflect Landowner Livelihoods
Letter To The Editor: Land Is More Than Acreage, It’s How Families Make A Living Dear editor: Trying to stop folks from using their land for energy projects, especially ones that bring in new income without harming the land, isn’t just short-sighted. It’s a threat to the very values this state was built on. Read […]
Groundwater Rights Under Review in Texas
A proposal by investor Kyle Bass to extract 10 billion gallons annually from a major aquifer has raised alarms. It challenges the long-standing “rule of capture” and is prompting calls to update Texas’s century-old water laws. Read more: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/kyle-bass-east-texas-water-20766618.php?
The Farm Bill Expired. What happens now?
Remind me—what is the farm bill again? The US Farm Bill is a package of legislation that gets passed approximately every five years, and it more or less shapes the landscape of American agriculture. There have been 18 iterations of this legislation. A lot of important items are rolled into it: crop subsidies, crop insurance, […]
Real Estate Is Emerging as a Hedge Against Roaring Inflation
Despite the headlines these days regarding inflation, which is at an almost 40-year high, safe havens are on the horizon with investments in real estate, specifically land real estate, as an alternative to investments in stocks. Many people are evaluating what to do with their savings after being in lockdown for the past couple of […]