RETURN OF THE BIG DEAL. Earlier this month, Texas’s Four Sixes Ranch, listed for $341 million by Sam Middleton of Chas. S. Middleton and Son, and Montana’s Climbing Arrow Ranch, listed for $136.25 million by Mike Swan of Swan Land Company, both went to contract. That’s the lead story in our May newsletter. Other reads include:

• Rother Farm & Ranch Auction fetches $35.8 million.
• Midwest farmland values rise 7 percent in Q1 2021.
• Supreme Court rules 9-0 for Georgia vs. Florida in the “Water Wars.”

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