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America’s Top Auction Houses: Pifer’s Auction & Realty

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Land Report Editors

“Land is not only a great place to store wealth. It is yesterday’s small cap stock without the risk.” – Kevin Pifer. Pifer’s Auction & Realty is a full-service auction and real estate firm headed by Kevin Pifer, former North…

Tagged with: farmland, Kevin Pifer, Pifer's Auction & Realty
Posted in 2011 Spring, Feature, Great Plains, Magazine, Midwest, News Desk

Market Watch: Chicago Fed Cites Surge in Midwest Land Prices

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Eric OKeefe

Agricultural land values in the Seventh Federal Reserve District jumped 12% in 2010, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. The district encompasses key portions of America’s Corn Belt, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The increase was the second largest on record…

Tagged with: Chicago Fed, farmland, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin
Posted in Farming, Feature, Great Lakes, Midwest, News Desk

Indiana Farmland Skyrockets in Q4

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Land Report Editors

A combination of global and regional factors, including increased demand for grain, falling yields, and rising commodity prices, propelled the value of top-tier Indiana farmland as much as 25 percent in the final quarter of 2010. The usual rate? Over…

Iowa Farmland Moves Up 13%

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Eric OKeefe

The Chicago Fed reports that farmland values rose 10% in the Seventh Federal Reserve District, which covers all of Iowa, the southern two-thirds of Wisconsin, the northern half of Illinois, the northern two-thirds of Indiana and the southern three-fourths of…

Tagged with: farm prices, farmland, Iowa land, Midwest
Posted in Farming, Midwest, Regional News

For Sale: Kevin Costner’s Field of Dreams for $5.4 Million

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Eric OKeefe

By all accounts, it’s the typical sort of listing you see advertised in The Land Report: FOR SALE. 193-acre corn farm for sale in eastern Iowa for $5.4 million. Owned and farmed by same family for over a century. Includes two-bedroom…

Tagged with: Field of Dreams, Iowa, James Earl Jones, Kevin Costner, Midwest, Ray Liotta
Posted in Eric OKeefe, Farming, Feature, Midwest

On the Block: 1,600 acres of Illinois Farmland Sept. 10

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Land Report Editors

VeraSun Energy will auction approximately 1,600 acres of Illinois farmland on Sept. 10 with Schrader and Westchester auction companies managing the sale. The land, located in Montgomery, Madison, and Vermilion counties, consists primarily of high-quality tillable farmland, including some located…

Tagged with: auction, Eddie Lee Rider, farmland, land values
Posted in Auctions, Eddie Lee Rider, Farming, Midwest

Duke Energy Makes Major Investment in GreenTrees

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Land Report Editors

Duke Energy has become the lead investor in GreenTrees, a privately managed forest restoration program created and managed by C2I for landowners in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley: Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. This enormous valley once…

On the Block: 170 Acres in Marion County, Illinois

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Land Report Editors

Update: The complete tract of land went unsold during the brief auction. The first tract at 50 acres was passed on at $120,000, the second tract at 40 acres was unsold at $96,000, and the third tract at 80 acres…

Tagged with: auction, CRP, hunting, Illinois
Posted in Auctions, Conservation, Farming, Feature, Grant Gannon, Hunting, Midwest, Recreation

Quail Unlimited Announces “Reload Iowa”

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Eric OKeefe

The loss of more than one-quarter million acres of Conservation Reserve Program land is one of the many reasons that harvest numbers of pheasant and quail in Iowa have dropped from 1.9 million and 1.1 million in the 1970s to less than 500,000…

Posted in Conservation, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Hunting, Midwest, News Desk, Regional News, Topics

Illinois Land Auction Gins $24 Million

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Eric OKeefe

A crowd of 800, including 250 bidders, gathered at the Crowne Plaza in Springfield on Jan. 21 and spent more than six hours and $24 million to acquire 4,000 acres of prime Illinois farmland.