On the first day that Dan and Zita Elrod stepped foot on a plot of wooded land with a cabin overlooking the Duck River, they ...

Farmers and officials such as Pettus Read hope fast-growing Rutherford County can preserve historic farmland, as well as other fast-growing counties around the state. "Agriculture has been my life ...

Descendants of one of Nashville’s founders appear to disagree over whether to sell land granted to an ancestor for his ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee’s new Farmland Preservation Act, which passed earlier this year, is an effort to save what farmland the state has left. However, some farmers and advocates describe ...

Multi-generational family farmers in West Tennessee share personal anecdotes of how tariffs have impacted their livelihoods ...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WTVF) — After a two-year legislative effort, Tennessee's Farmland Preservation Act officially went into effect Tuesday. With Tennessee losing farmland at an alarming rate of 10 acres ...

Farmland across the U.S. is disappearing by the millions of acres each decade by some estimates as sprawling urban development driven by rising housing costs pushes further into rural pastures. The ...

From the flatlands of West Tennessee to the soaring hills of East Tennessee, one of the state's most precious resources, its farmland, or 10 million acres, is in danger of significantly dwindling if ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WKRG, WATE) – Over half of Tennessee‘s U.S. congressional representatives are asking questions about the amount of foreign-owned farmland in the U.S. and how it is tracked. Tennessee ...

NASHVILLE − Legislation to protect Tennessee farmland from development advanced out of the Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee this week. Senate Bill 207, sponsored by Senate ...