News Desk

SOLD! 209 Acres of Iowa Farmland Goes For $18,000 Per Acre at Auction

Posted on November 8, 2019 by Land Report Editors

$18,300 PER ACRE! On October 11, Iowa Auction Group successfully marketed 209 acres of Sioux County farmland at auction, including a 66-acre parcel with 61.87 cropland acres for $18,300 per acre and a 143-acre parcel for $13,500 per acre. According…

Posted in Agriculture, Auctions, Farming, Feature, Iowa, Midwest, News Desk

America’s National Mammal Returns to Badlands Habitat for the First Time in More Than a Century

Posted on November 7, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Thanks to a land swap involving the 22,000-acre Don Kelly Ranch, bison have returned to portions of South Dakota’s Badlands for the first time since the 1870s. Engineered by the US Forest Service and the World Wildlife Fund among others,…

Posted in Conservation, Feature, Federal Policy, Great Plains, News Desk, Public Land, South Dakota

Sporting Goods Sales Tax Revenue on the Ballot

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Land Report Editors

For more than two decades, Texas legislators have used sales tax revenues from sporting goods sales as a private piggy bank, directing those receipts away from the outdoors to other line items in the state budget. Thanks to the Texas…

Land Report 2018 Auction Deal of the Year: Western South Dakota Auction

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Land Report Editors

By Cary Estes When Peoples Company auctioneer Jared Chambers was presented with the task of publicizing an impending auction of two ranches totaling more than 8,000 acres across two counties in Western South Dakota, he developed a marketing campaign that…

Tagged with: Adam Curran, Faith, Jared Chambers, Lyle Rowen, National Auctioneers Association, Peoples Company, Rhonda Rowen, Triple R Ranch, Western South Dakota
Posted in Agriculture, Auctions, Cary Estes, Cattle, Farming, Feature, Great Plains, Minerals, South Dakota, Water

Land Report 2018 Timberland Deal of the Year: Triple T Timberlands

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Land Report Editors

Billion Dollar Texas Timberland Sale. By Cary Estes What many are touting as the timberland transaction of the decade actually was more than a decade in the making. Campbell Global sold 1.1 million acres in East Texas for $1.39 billion…

Tagged with: California Public Employees’ Retirement System, Campbell Global, CatchMark Timber Trust, TexMark Timber Treasure, Triple T Timberlands
Posted in Cary Estes, Feature, Southwest, Texas, Timber

Land Report 2018 Ranchland Deal of the Year: El Maximo Ranch

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Land Report Editors

End of an Era. By Cary Estes There was one last bit of juice left in the sprawling holdings accumulated by Florida citrus pioneer Latimer “Latt” Maxcy. Maxcy (1887–1971) was one of the first entrepreneurs to plant large tracts of…

Tagged with: Ben Crosby, citrus, Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate, Crosby & Associates, Dean Saunders, El Maximo Ranch, Investment Corporation of Dubai, Latimer â€œLattâ€ Maxcy, Latt Maxcy, Latt Maxcy Corporation, Murray Wise, Murray Wise Associates, Optimum Agriculture
Posted in Agriculture, Cary Estes, Cattle, Feature, Florida, South, Water

Land Report 2018 Farmland Deal of the Year: Walla Walla Masterpiece

Posted on October 25, 2019 by Land Report Editors

From a 600-acre tract in the 1960s, a 6,000-acre agricultural powerhouse and our 2018 Farmland Deal of the Year was born. By Cary Estes It is easy to see the appeal of the 6,000-acre Weidert Farm in Washington’s Walla Walla…

Tagged with: Craig Wichner, Farmland LP, Peoples Company, Steve Bruere, Walla Walla, Weidert Farm, Weidert Farms
Posted in Agriculture, Cary Estes, Farming, Feature, Pacific, Washington, Water

Colorado Water Rights All Wet

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Land Report Editors

A new record was set for a key Northern Colorado water asset that was auctioned by Scott Shuman of Hall and Hall Auctions. The August sale of the Fred Sekich Farm generated a total of $15,545,920 with roughly $13 million…

Tagged with: Colorado-Big Thompson, Fred Sekich Farm, Hall and Hall Auctions, Northern Colorado water asset, Scott Shuman
Posted in Auctions, Colorado, Feature, News Desk, Water, West

SOLD! South Texas’s La Bandera Ranch Sells

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Land Report Editors

The sale of the South Texas hunting ranch, which was listed for sale at $54 million, was recently announced by Whitetail Properties, which noted that the transaction was the largest in the company’s history. Hunters from around the world have…