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The Senior Vice President of Real Estate Operations for Farmers National Company reported during the first six month of its fiscal year, land sales were up 56% over the same time last year.
Key forces are converging to send farmland values higher — maybe even to historic levels.
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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 sales continue to raise eyebrows and challenge—or set—records. Just look at these farmland sales results.
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 remains in a delicate supply-versus-demand balance.
The state hosts “corporate farming laws,” barring corporations and limited liability companies from owning and leasing farms and ranches.
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.
The stronger land prices of late 2021 continued higher through the first half of 2022.
Land sales continue to set records. Late last month, a farm in Plymouth County, Iowa sold for $25,000 per acre.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued guidance on critical industry workforce that should continue as the country addresses and responds to the coronavirus outbreak. U.S. food and agriculture was included.
AgDay’s Clinton Griffiths hosted a forum with representatives from both presidential campaigns.
Coronavirus restrictions have forced the American Farm Bureau Federation to switch to an all virtual format for their 2021 convention in January.
A key ag policy strategist says that rural voters reversed the 2018 “blue wave.”
With just days remaining in the 2020 presidential campaign, farmers and ranchers responding to the Farm Journal Pulse continue to show a strong preference for retaining President Donald Trump.
Even with a divided Congress, there are some issues Karla Thieman from the Russell Group thinks can still be worked through in the next Congress, but one of the biggest hurdles will be crafting a the next farm bill.
Who will lead the house ag committee? Is a split government good for agriculture? Get the latest election coverage here.
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack for agriculture secretary, according to two sources familiar with the decision.
As agriculture awaits confirmation Joe Biden will tap Tom Vilsack as the next Secretary of Agriculture, Washington insiders say Vilsack is a known entity, which would be a positive for U.S. farmers and ranchers.
With only 12 days until the Biden presidential inauguration, optimism is sprouting from some agricultural groups, with leaders saying the Biden Administration is taking an extremely proactive approach to agriculture.
Lawmakers may have left town, but centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) left no doubt that he cannot support President Biden’s $1.75 trillion social and climate spending plan, imperiling the president’s agenda.
The AFBF suggests EPA halt their plan to rewrite WOTUS until it has more guidance in deciding which waters are categorized under the federal jurisdiction.
Welcome to a nightmare—the Yazoo Backwater Project—a bureaucratic taffy pull of dysfunctional government, politics, science, farming, and the backdoor dealings of a federal agency.
COVID-19-related legislation continues to run the gavel, while rural America urges Congress to deliver on its economic relief promises. Here are three issues to watch.
The Senate Commerce Committee passed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act (OSRA), helping agricultural exporters level the playing field for American exports.
The CBO says the reconciliation bill, dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act,” cuts the deficit by $102 billion. Senators are pushing for last-minute changes as debate nears, including to electric-vehicle tax-credit limits.