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40% of America's Farmland Could Change Hands, Ag REIT Says. Cash Rent May Spare His Social Security, but Crop-Sharing Can Change the Rules
24/7 Wall St examines how farm leasing can affect Social Security retirement benefits, citing Amber Farmland Investments' estimate that roughly 40% of U.S. farmland could change hands within 15 years. Its hypothetical landowner is 64 and already receiving benefits. Ordinary passive rent generally does not count toward the earnings test, but farm income can count when the arrangement requires material participation and the owner actually participates.
The article's example uses $30,000 in countable net farm earnings and the 2026 annual limit of $24,480, producing $2,760 in potential benefit withholding. That calculation assumes the owner remains below full retirement age throughout the year, has no other work income and is not covered by the special first-year rule. It concerns benefit withholding, not exemption from income tax.
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