farm ownership
Holding rural land
Farm ownership is the legal possession of agricultural land and its associated structures.
The term appears in policy discussions about who controls farmland—whether individuals, families, corporations, or foreign investors.
Farm ownership has increasingly shifted from family operations to large agricultural companies.
Questions of farm ownership intersect with debates about rural economics, food security, and land use.
- deedWritten property conveyance
- mortgageSecured home loan
- land reformRedistributing agricultural holdings
- leaseTemporary use contract
- barn raisingCollective agricultural structure assembly
subsidies · generational wealth · equity · trust · inheritance · agrarian society · homestead · land grant · back forty · title · lien · local markets · cash crop · irrigation · acreage · fence line · food security · property rights
- rural studiesrural communities, rural development, rural culture, village life, country life
farm ownershiptenant farming
Agriculture on leased property
sharecropping · farm labor · landlessness · squatting · serfdom
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