ADAMS COUNTY- Philadelphia-based agricultural company, Belltown Farms, recently purchased a farm outside of Hastings in addition to their four farms in southwest Nebraska. The purchase made Belltown the second-largest buyer of Nebraska’s increasingly pricey farmland between 2018 and 2022. Belltown’s total Nebraska farmland portfolio now stands at nearly 19,000 acres, about two-thirds of the farmland the company operates across the country, with other locations in Illinois, Michigan, Texas, and New York.

Belltown stands out for its differences. While other big farmland investment companies sometimes lease out their land, they directly operate their farms. Belltown only raises organic crops, proving false the stereotype that organic farmers are small, quirky, and unable to turn a profit.

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