Beef Magazine

Pasture Values

Pastureland Cool-Down 

Sep 1, 2008 - By Mike Fritz

U.S. pasture values climbed an average 6% to $1,230/acre this year. That's sharply behind last year's 16% pace and extends a flattening trend that followed...

Riding The Winds 

Sep 1, 2008 - By Larry Stalcup

Been trying to keep up with feeder-cattle futures lately? If you have, and you're not sitting down, best find a chair, because the volatility can be dizzying....

Where will it end? 

Mar 1, 2008 - By Mike Fritz

Private grazing rates across the Western U.S. climbed more than 5% for the 12 months through January to $14.50/animal unit month (AUM). That’s up from last year’s 4.5% pace, according to the latest USDA January Cattle Survey. Yet, given the developing profit squeeze caused by steeply rising feed prices and other production costs, market participants say lease rates will eventually have to retreat...

Pasture Cools 

Sep 1, 2007 - By Mike Fritz

Robust demand for recreational tracts, strong livestock profits and high grain prices continue to fuel the strong bull run in the pasture and rangeland...

Land values up again 

Jul 1, 2007

Farmland values, driven by high crop prices, continue to surge, according to the Federal Land Bank of Kansas City's Quarterly Ag Credit Survey. First-quarter,...

Land Values Continue On The Upswing 

May 18, 2007 - by Burt Rutherford

Farmland values, driven by high crop prices, are surging at a pace not seen since the 1980s in some states, according to the Federal Land Bank of Kansas City's Quarterly Ag Credit Survey...

Pastureland Survey Shows Lease Rates Still Climbing 

Feb 23, 2007

Lingering drought and strong cattle prices combined to push private grazing rates up 4.5% this year to $13.80/animal unit month (AUM) across the Western U.S...

Outside Capital Keeps Ranchland Values Rolling 

Jan 22, 2007

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