[sarasota]

I know. Yet it seems that they don't have kids who want to take over the family farm so they hold on as long as it's profitable or they die. And when they die, these farms are sold so fast you get whiplash.

[Vermonter]

they don't have kids who want to take over the family farm

Sad, but true

[baltodog]

I used to live just outside of Ottawa County.
I can recall a long drawn-out battle between a pig farmer and some people who had built a house adjacent to his property. I don't know what the outcome was.
Personally, I think that it would do alot people good to shovel sh*t on a Saturday afternoon.

[ridesthemiles]

And when they die, these farms are sold so fast you get whiplash.

I maintain if the DEAT TAX were abolished once and for all, this sale would not occur.
The IRS and others come in on an estate, and declare an obscene value for the property. Then the IRS wants 50% of that value. The heirs are almost always forced to sell the farm to pay the death taxes.