Farmland
For 2022, the national average for cash rents on cropland is $148 per acre. That’s up $7 from last year and eclipsed the previous high of 2015’s $144 per acre.
If thinking about negotiating cash rental rates makes you sweat—you’re not alone. Employ these negotiation strategies.
Welcome to a festering landowner-hunter conflict and a lawsuit launched by rural property owners against the state. If persistent hunting dog encroachment affects a farming operation, is compensation in order?
Land values have hit record levels in the past year. Iowa has experienced the biggest percentage increase, but other Midwestern states aren’t far behind. Can land prices keep going up?
For 2022, USDA reports the value of the nation’s cropland is $5,050. That’s up $630, or 14%, from 2021. This year’s figure marks back-to-back record highs in cropland values.
If you find yourself ready to bid on a significant number of acres, do your homework, analyze lease types and perfect your landlord communication plan.
Both agricultural lenders and economists are watching the possible impact higher interest rates will have on not only the number of U.S. farmland sales, but the price.
From 2001 to 2016, the U.S. lost or compromised 2,000 acres of farmland and ranchland every day. If that trend continues, and another 18.4 million acres is converted between 2016 and 2040.
Most farmland auctions happen in the fall or early winter. What will be the trend this year?
Efficiency is everything in agriculture. And thanks to John Deere’s newly released See & Spray Ultimate, growers can spray less and gain cost efficiency—conquering the battle against herbicide resistance.
Lies, Loans, and the lifeless body of a father helped forge a remarkable turnaround for a pair of Illinois growers—brothers in farms.
PBS is in its third season of airing American Grown: My Job Depends on Ag, an Emmy Award-winning docuseries that could be headed to your region in coming months.
Farmland sales continue to steal the headlines. As prices records continue to be broken, keep some of these farmland trends in mind.
Over 1,250 poll responses reveal the least favorite job you had as a kid likely centered around weeds and rocks.
Much like a personal resume, a farm resume highlights your qualifications to do a job.
Don E. Funk, fourth-generation seedsman and grandson of seed industry pioneer, Edward J. Funk, died June 9, 2022, of natural causes.
Welcome to a tale too insane for fiction: a cottonmouth farmer seeking a snake venom crop for harvest.
Grower sentiment plummeted to a reading of just 99 in May, the lowest in two years. The dramatic rise in input costs “creates havoc in people’s minds,” says Jim Mintert, report co-author.
Specialty tree, nut, vine and fruit and vegetable growers are well-versed in the sustainable benefits biological products bring to their operations.
Is private land a federal playground? The government claims a phenomenally powerful right—access and surveillance on every inch of farmland, hunting ground, and pasture in the U.S., without warrant or probable cause.
John Phipps breaks down the 900 million acres of farmland in the U.S. by land use and answers a looming question about if the U.S. has enough farmland to feed America.
Farmland in parts of Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska, for example, have seen 30% to 40% year-over-year moves up in price. One expert sees no land price weakness anywhere in the U.S. but shares how that could change.
Efficiency is everything in agriculture, every single day. That’s why staying connected to service is key to keeping farm businesses running efficiently even when there’s a breakdown.
As a customer-owned cooperative, Farm Credit Mid-America understands that a little extra capital can make a big difference in a farmer’s operation.
For 17 straight months, the rural economy has posted healthy and consistent growth. That’s according to the March Rural Mainstreet Index (RMI) from Creighton University.
Now that it’s time to complete annual dicamba application training, Bayer has you covered. The company recently launched a flexible and easy-to-use online training platform.
Farmland currently appears to be something akin to a modern-day gold rush. It can’t be bought up fast enough, while per-acre prices fetched for recent sales set record high after record high.
Success and growing pains, three young gun farmers discussed the formulas of their achievement at Top Producer Summit in Nashville, Tenn.
Long-term land leases aren’t popular in the core of the Corn Belt, but are in other production areas in the U.S., as well as around the globe. John Phipps weighs in on the debate, along with other factors at play.
For further evidence Pivot Bio PROVEN® 40 offers growers a truly predictable performance—an additional study covering the 2021 growing season looked at 344 farmer demonstration locations across 24 states.