The Chicago Fed reports that a three-year slide in farmland values in the Seventh Federal Reserve District has come to an end. According to senior business economist David Oppedahl, an annual increase of 1 percent in nominal terms was recorded…
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Corn Belt Ag Values Edge Slightly Higher in 2017
Tagged with: Chicago Fed, Corn Belt, farmland, land values, seventh federal reserve district
Posted in Agriculture, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Midwest, Missouri, News Desk, Ohio
Posted in Agriculture, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Midwest, Missouri, News Desk, Ohio
Chicago Fed Reports Minimal Change Over Last Year
Farmland values in the Seventh Federal Reserve District saw a year-over-year decrease of 1 percent in the third quarter of 2017. The Midwest has not experienced a year-over-year decrease or increase in agricultural land values greater than 1 percent in…
Tagged with: Chicago Fed, Corn Belt, farmland, land values, seventh federal reserve district
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Midwest, Missouri, News Desk, Ohio
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Midwest, Missouri, News Desk, Ohio
2017 Land Report 100
America’s largest landowners continue to increase their holdings. That’s one of the many takeaways from the 2017 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader. Liberty Media chairman John Malone retained the top spot as the nation’s largest landowner with 2.2 million…
Tagged with: John Malone, Land Report 100, Peter Buck, Stan Kroenke, Ted Turner, Thomas Peterffy, William Randolph Hearst
Posted in Agriculture, Back Issues, Cattle, Conservation, Developers, Energy, Equestrian, Farming, Federal Policy, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Hunting, Land Report 100, Midwest, Minerals, News Desk, Northeast, Pacific, South, Southwest, Timber, Water, West
Posted in Agriculture, Back Issues, Cattle, Conservation, Developers, Energy, Equestrian, Farming, Federal Policy, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Hunting, Land Report 100, Midwest, Minerals, News Desk, Northeast, Pacific, South, Southwest, Timber, Water, West
Chicago Fed to Host Global Ag Conference
Anyone remotely interested in US agriculture and its ties to the global economy should make plans to attend the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Agricultural Conference on Tuesday, November 28. The focus of the one-day event will be agricultural trade…
Tagged with: Chicago Fed, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Tom Vilsack
Posted in Agriculture, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Midwest, Missouri, News Desk, Ohio
Posted in Agriculture, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Midwest, Missouri, News Desk, Ohio
Downward Trend in Corn Belt Land Values Comes to a Halt
Farmland values in the Seventh Federal Reserve District remained steady in the first quarter of 2017, a welcome development that ended a two-year slide in land values in the Midwest. As the chart below demonstrates, this newfound stability applied to…
Tagged with: Chicago Fed, corn, Corn Belt, land values, seventh federal reserve district, soybeans
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Farming, Feature, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Midwest, Missouri, Ohio
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Farming, Feature, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Midwest, Missouri, Ohio
Cropland Values Hold Steady at $4,090 Per Acre Nationwide
The Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service announced that from 2016 to 2017, US cropland values remained constant at $4,090 per acre. Top gainers included Texas and Oklahoma, which saw increases of 6.3 and 6.1 percent, respectively. Kansas cropland…
Posted in Agriculture, Farming, Feature, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Midwest, News Desk, Northeast, Pacific, South, Southwest, West
Buying a Piece of Ground
Tom and Meredith Brokaw had no idea about the adventure they were about to undertake when they decided to buy a ranch in Montana in the late 1980s. “It was kind of a romantic idea that I had of buying…
Tagged with: Tom Brokaw
Posted in Conservation, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Interviews, Midwest, Montana, Recreation
Posted in Conservation, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Interviews, Midwest, Montana, Recreation
Indiana, Wisconsin Bolster Corn Belt Land Values
The American Farmer did it again in 2016: besting all-time records for corn and bean production. The increased volume almost compensated for falling commodity prices. Almost. – The Editors NATIONAL — TREND At 15.1 billion bushels, US corn production in…
Land Report 2016 Agriculture Deal of the Year: Wilder Farms Acquisition by Farmland Partners
It’s not often that more than a dozen square miles of Illinois farmland come to market at one time, but that’s exactly what happened last December. The 46 tracts were spread out over two counties, just east of the Iowa…
Tagged with: Farmland Partners, Paul Pittman, R.D. Schrader, Wilder Farms
Posted in Agriculture, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Illinois, Midwest
Posted in Agriculture, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Illinois, Midwest
Sale of Australia’s S. Kidman & Co. Garners Deal of the Year Honors
Other honorees from 2016 include Ranchland Deal of the Year, Agriculture Deal of the Year, and Timberland Deal of the Year. A remarkable series of landmark transactions takes center stage in the Spring 2017 issue of The Magazine of the…
Tagged with: Bluestem Ranch, Farmland Partners, Forest Investment Associates, Gina Rinehart, Hancock Timber Resource Group, Molpus Woodlands Group, Osage Nation, S. Kidman & Co., Sidney Kidman, Ted Turner, Wilder Farms
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Conservation, Feature, Great Plains, Illinois, International, Midwest, News Desk, Oklahoma, Timber
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Conservation, Feature, Great Plains, Illinois, International, Midwest, News Desk, Oklahoma, Timber
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