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U.S. farm real estate values are seeing a rapid rise in 2021, with the Western Corn Belt seeing values rise at a faster pace than the East, but the storyline could change, according to Jackson Takach of Farmer Mac.
How much does it cost to rent cropland this year? According to NASS, the average price is $141 per acre. That’s $2 higher than last year, and up $7 from five years ago.
Farmland remains in a delicate supply-versus-demand balance.
The 2022 increase in values marks the largest increase state since 2014 and is the highest non-inflation-adjusted statewide land value in the history of the survey.
High prices cure high prices, but will that be the case with the record-breaking farmland prices seen in 2021 and early 2022?
Farmland sales continue to raise eyebrows and challenge—or set—records. Just look at these farmland sales results.
The stronger land prices of late 2021 continued higher through the first half of 2022.
The ‘it looked good from the road’ trend continued into western Iowa on Wednesday. In Illinois, scouts found a good crop, but maybe not the bumper crop they did last year.
Land sales continue to set records. Late last month, a farm in Plymouth County, Iowa sold for $25,000 per acre.