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  • Jul. 9, 2012
    Article

    Farmland Prices Growing In Great Plains

    Farmland prices in the U.S. Midwest corn belt could be a “bubble,” while growing areas in the Great Plains and Mississippi River Delta provide better returns, says Detlef Schoen, managing partner at Aquila Capital....More
  • Apr. 17, 2012
    Article

    U.S. Farmland Price Boom To Slow, But Not Plateau

    The surge in farmland prices, which doubled in a decade amid an agricultural boom, should cool in the coming year as prices bump against the ability of cropland to pay for itself....More
  • Mar. 30, 2012
    blog

    Opinion: Supreme Court Gives Landowners A Victory 1

    Landowners fighting an Environmental Protection Agency exercise of jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act were given their day in court, thanks to a ruling last week by the U.S. Supreme Court. The verdict in Sackett vs. EPA, didn’t overrule EPA’s contention about wetlands but landowners now have the opportunity to challenge the pronouncement in court. This removes a tactic EPA frequently employed to bully property owners to bow to its wishes....More
  • Mar. 29, 2012
    blog

    How Much Can You Pay For Land? 6

    One of the biggest challenges facing producers today is the rising cost of land. In fact, I recently read that the price of land is the number-one concern of young farmers and ranchers today, with many finding it nearly impossible to compete against established ranchers and obtain the necessary credit to make the purchase. And, once a purchase is made, does the investment pencil out?...More
  • Mar. 22, 2012
    Article

    Opinion: Awash In Neglected Lands, Senate Goes For More 2

    Federal and state governments control 90% of Alaska, 80% of Nevada, 70% of Utah, 65% of Idaho and 55% of Wyoming and Arizona. And that doesn’t even include military or tribal land, nor water areas, leases or easements. In fact, the federal government is by far the largest landowner in the U.S....More
  • Feb. 13, 2012
    Article

    Cattle Producers Advised To Use Caution As Prices March Higher

    When Jason Johnson, AgriLife Extension economist from Stephenville, TX, showed a slide to several hundred cattle producers at the Blackland Income Growth Conference in Waco, it caused many to gasp and begin conversations about profit potential....More
  • Dec. 16, 2011
    blog

    The Chance For Ag Ground May Have Passed

    With 20/20 hindsight, nearly everyone today laments the fact they weren’t more aggressive in the land market a few years back. The perfect storm was in place – ethanol subsidies made corn the new gold rush, while soaring debt and a sluggish economy was driving investment dollars into commodities and better inflation hedges....More
  • Dec. 4, 2011
    article

    Ag Land Increasing In Value

    The good news is that agricultural land is increasing in value in Wyoming....More
  • Oct. 1, 2011
    article

    Indiana Features Highest Pasture Rents; Texas The Lowest

    The starting point for negotiating leases is usually to review the rate charged last year. Until last year, many ranchers looked to the annual Bluestem Pasture Release, published by the Kansas Department of Agriculture and the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). This survey collected pasture lease rates across the 14-county Flint Hills region in Kansas and served as a benchmark for Plains cattlemen....More
  • Sep. 30, 2011
    article

    Fewer Cattle This Year, But Pasture Value Is Up

    Continued low interest rates, robust price increases for row-crop land and strong cattle prices are nudging up pasture values....More
  • Aug. 23, 2011
    article

    Why Is George Soros Selling His Gold And Buying Farmland?

    Here's a great trivia question for you....More
  • Jul. 7, 2011
    article

    Research: No Bubble In Booming Ag Land Values

    U.S. ag land prices have increased steadily over the last decade, leading experts and landowners to question whether the high values are sustainable....More
  • Jun. 27, 2011
    article

    Land Values Booming

    A study conducted by South Dakota State University (SDSU) shows agricultural land values are booming again in South Dakota, charting a 16.5% increase in 2010-2011, the third-largest since SDSU economists began tracking the farm real estate market in 1991....More
  • May 20, 2011
    article

    Ranchland Values Climb Sharply In First Quarter

    Ranchland values climbed sharply in the first quarter of 2011, rising 11% above year-ago levels, according to a survey of ag credit conditions by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City...More
  • Apr. 17, 2011
    article

    What Lies Ahead After Historic Farmland Boom?

    Since 2000, U.S. farmland values have roughly doubled in nominal terms and have risen a whopping 58% after factoring in inflation, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which recently hosted a symposium, “Don’t Bet the Farm — Assessing the Boom in U.S. Farmland Prices.”...More
  • Apr. 15, 2011
    article

    Buying Acres For Grain Hurts Beef Cattle Production

    A lot of the experts have been predicting $8/bu. corn, not necessarily because they believe corn will be that high but because the market will need to push that high to ensure enough acres are planted in corn. The gurus refer to this as “buying acres.” By the way, recent calf prices are the market’s attempt to buy more cows to go into production as well...More
  • Oct. 28, 2010
    article

    First Publicly Traded Farmland Fund To Be Launched

    Investors’ appetite for a publicly traded farmland fund could soon be tested with the planned initial public offering of Gladstone Land Corp. The McLean, VA- based company filed registration papers in August to sell up to $222.6 million in common stock....More
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