Siraj G. Bawa and Scott Callahan
U.S. Department of Agriculture
A congressionally mandated report was written at the request of the U.S. House and Senate Committees of Agriculture as part of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. The committees directed the USDA’s Economic Research Service to provide a report assessing the effects that absent landlords have on the economic health of agricultural production, including land valuation, soil health and the economic stability of rural communities.
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