Today we are pleased to have the VP of Spanish KCM, Jeymy Gonzalez, as our guest blogger. Jeymy has personal experience with the challenges Hispanics may face during the real estate process and works to assist this community with guidance and education. Enjoy! A recent Fox News Latino article talks about the healthy growth of Latino-Owned farms. According with the Census of Agriculture “there has been a 21 percent increase in ownership in the last 5 years.” Most of those farms are small or mid-sized with greatest concentrations living in Texas, New Mexico and California. The Latino-owned farms have become key providers of certain produce. The article mentioned for example; Latinos own two-thirds of the strawberry farms in California. This increase is the result of the work of Organizations like Rural Coalition that represents small farmers and producers in the U.S. and Mexico, the recruitment efforts to bring in minority and women farmers by the USDA, and large economic forces, as NAFTA, who led new farm owners to work their way up from being laborers. There is a great opportunity for real estate professionals who focus their business on farms and ranches. The USDA Census of agriculture published a table with the Farms with Hispanic/Latino Principal operator and The KCM Crew put it together on this map for you!

You can help these Latino operators become farm owners & fulfill the American Dream!