Starting Time: 00:00
Hayes D. Brown, attorney and forest owner, will moderate this news conference. Hayes’ email address is hbrown@hayesbrown.com.
Starting Time: 00:50
Micah Brown is a staff attorney at the National Agricultural Law Center, the nation’s leading source of agricultural and food law research and information. A topic across the nation as of late is the foreign ownership, particularly Chinese ownership, of U.S. agricultural land. Unbeknown to many until lately, foreign investments into U.S. agricultural land have increased significantly over the last decade. In fact, according to the National Agricultural Law Center, since January 2022, foreigners have an interest in more than 40 million acres of U.S. agricultural land. Many within the Alabama legislature have been working on a local level to change this in Alabama. Last year, Senator Tim Melson introduced Senate Bill 14 in an attempt to restrict foreign ownership, but the bill failed to pass. This year, Representative Scott Stadthagen has introduced HB379 in an effort to prohibit Chinese ownership of property in Alabama, and just last week HB379 cleared the House Urban and Rural Development Committee to proceed. Micah joins us to provide insight into the topic, what citizens should know, and the latest on legislative attempts to prohibit foreign ownership.
Starting Time: 04:46
Becky Barlow serves as the Assistant Director for Ag, Forestry, and Natural Resource programs with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, as well as Associate Dean for Extension within Auburn University’s College of Agriculture. With her extensive background in the industry, she knows the importance for landowners to have a forest inventory taken of their property so that they can make the best, most informed decisions possible. This is one of the many reasons behind the creation of the Alabama Cooperative Extension’s (ACE) new online resource, Forest Inventory Basics for Family Forest Landowners. The e-book, which was supported financially by the Bradley/Murphy Forestry and Natural Resources Extension Trust, “provides the basics of forest measurements and inventories, how and why they are taken, and how to interpret the results of those measurements” through a variety of methods, from well-written narratives to actual video tutorials. Becky, co-author of the e-book, joins us to talk about what led to its creation and why it’s a must-read for landowners and consulting foresters alike.
Starting Time: 08:17
Clint Flowers is a Partner, Accredited Land Consultant, and managing broker for National Land Realty throughout the Gulf Coast region. As a landowner, there are many pros to leasing out the land for hunting, but there is a lot that comes along with it to make sure that you and your property are protected and getting a fair price. Clint joins us to explain everything landowners need to know when it comes to leasing out land for hunting
See also: www.HuntingLand.bz
Starting Time: 14:27
Matthew Gaw serves as data manager and research professional at TimberMart-South. Matthew manages timber price data and provides market intelligence to clients every day in his role, and he joins us to share his insights and an update regarding what’s going on with the market.
