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475,000 Total Acres Now Preserved on Nearly 4,500 Farms HARRISBURG, Pa., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania's Agricultural Land Preservation Board today safeguarded 1,906 additional acres on 23 farms in 11 counties through the state's nationally renowned farmland preservation program. The board preserved farms in Berks, Bucks, Cambria, Columbia, Franklin, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton and Wayne counties. Since the program began in 1988,...

COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Strong crowds of farmers and investors turned out for back-to-back farmland auctions in Terre Haute and Oxford, Ind., Monday and Tuesday. The properties sold for a total of $12,997,060, according to R.D. Schrader, president of Schrader Real Estate & Auction Company, which managed both events. "We had excellent crowds two days in a row, with good participation from both investors and operating farmers. There was intense...

CLYMERS, Ind., June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Approximately 366 acres of productive farmland in Carroll and Cass counties will be offered at auction Monday, July 1, with Schrader Real Estate and Auction Company managing the sale. The property -- most of it tillable cropland -- will be offered in six tracts ranging from 28 acres to 107 acres. "These six tracts, with productive soils, are excellent for either operators or investors. Bidders will be able to bid on just the tracts -- or...

BRASILIA, Brazil, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, for several reasons, the indigenous question occupies a prominent place on the agenda of the Brazilian government, the Congress, the Justice and the lives of farmers in the country. The National Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA) reports that, for the first time, the President of Brazil is taking charge and assuming the task of managing the different interests involved. And it does so in an unprecedented...

SULLIVAN, Ind., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Approximately 1,035 acres of land in western Indiana and eastern Illinois will be offered at auction Tuesday, June 18. The land -- more than 83 percent of which is tillable -- is being sold by Indiana Michigan Power Company and Indiana Franklin Realty, Inc. The land in Sullivan County, Ind., will be offered in 14 tracts, ranging from 21 acres to 155 acres. "Taken as a whole, the Sullivan County tracts provide 655 acres of contiguous...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Approximately 1,600 acres of land near Terre Haute -- including farmland, hunting land and lakes -- will sell at auction Monday, June 10, with Schrader Real Estate and Auction Company managing the sale. The property includes approximately 935 acres of farmland and 525 acres of wooded land, as well as abundantly stocked lakes. It will be offered in 34 tracts ranging from 1.7 acres to 109 acres. "Groups of tracts may be purchased together to...

HARRISBURG, Pa., April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania's Agricultural Land Preservation Board today protected 1,493 additional acres on 18 farms in 12 counties from development through the state's nationally renowned farmland preservation program. The board preserved farms in Bucks, Carbon, Centre, Clinton, Cumberland, Dauphin, Greene, Lancaster, Monroe, Northampton, Northumberland and Pike counties. Since the program began...

Preservation Board approves investing $33 million in saving farmland for 2013 HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania's Agricultural Land Preservation Board today safeguarded 1,445 additional acres on 21 farms through the state's nationally renowned farmland preservation program. The board preserved farms in 10 counties. They are Armstrong, Beaver, Berks, Chester, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Northampton, Westmoreland and York counties. Since the...

More than 470,000 acres now preserved statewide HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania's Agricultural Land Preservation Board today safeguarded 2,064 additional acres on 22 farms in 17 counties through the state's nationally renowned farmland preservation program. The board preserved farms in Adams, Berks, Blair, Bucks, Butler, Centre, Chester, Dauphin, Juniata, Luzerne, Mifflin, Monroe, Perry, Potter, Union, Wayne and Westmoreland counties....

By Peter Blackburn RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's Globo TV network this month starts filming a soap opera set in the Amazon that the producers hope will stir debate at home and abroad on the plight of the world's biggest rainforest and the mostly poor people who live there. Globo's soaps, or "telenovelas," attract huge audiences and have been marketed in more than 80 countries. They often deal with pressing social issues such as racism and gun violence. "Amazonia" will...