PotlatchDeltic and The Conservation Fund have collaborated to maximize shareholder value and preserve more than 200,000 acres of Minnesota timberland. Our December newsletter features their latest transaction, a 72,000-acre sale valued at $48 million ($666 per acre). Other reads include:…
Chicago Fed
Corn Belt Ag Values Edge Slightly Higher in 2017
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…
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
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
Land Report February 2016 Newsletter
Thanks to his acquisition of Texas’s Waggoner Ranch, Stan Kroenke vaulted from No. 9 on the Land Report 100 to No. 5 earlier this month. Read more about this historic sale in our February newsletter, and learn about: A Napa estate…
Tagged with: Bernard Uechtritz, California Coastal Commission, Chicago Fed, Coldwell Banker Previews International, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Joel Leadbetter, Mason & Morse Ranch Company, Napa Valley, Pacific Union, Robin Williams, Sam Middleton, Stan Kroenke, Ute Lake Ranch, Waggoner Ranch
Posted in Agriculture, Auctions, Bankruptcy, California, Cattle, Conservation, Developers, Energy, Farming, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Midwest, New Mexico, News Desk, Newsletter, Pacific, Recreation, Residential Property, Southwest, Texas, Wisconsin
Posted in Agriculture, Auctions, Bankruptcy, California, Cattle, Conservation, Developers, Energy, Farming, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Midwest, New Mexico, News Desk, Newsletter, Pacific, Recreation, Residential Property, Southwest, Texas, Wisconsin
Land Report February 2015 Newsletter
Page through out February newsletter to learn: Who was selected by the RLI as the Land Realtor of the Year. What crop disease the USDA is tackling with $30 million worth of research. What conference you need to attend if private timberland…
Tagged with: Ben Crosby, Chicago Fed, citrus greening, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Forest Landowners Association, Murray Wise, RLI, Tom Vilsack, USDA
Posted in Agriculture, Farming, News Desk, Newsletter
Posted in Agriculture, Farming, News Desk, Newsletter
Mixed Signals on Midwest Farmland
Seventh Federal Reserve District Sees 2-Percent Drop in 3Q By the close of the third quarter, farmland values in Indiana and Michigan had moved up, those in Illinois and Iowa had dropped, and Wisconsin’s values stayed the same. That’s the…
Tagged with: Chicago Fed, cropland prices, Investing
Posted in Agriculture, Farming, Feature, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Midwest, News Desk, Ohio
Posted in Agriculture, Farming, Feature, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Midwest, News Desk, Ohio
Midwest Farm Values Inch Higher
The good news? For the fifth consecutive year, ag values in the all-important Seventh Federal Reserve District moved up. The bad news? The days of double-digit gains are a thing of the past. — The Editors NATIONAL — TREND A…
Tagged with: AgLetter, Chicago Fed, farmland values, record harvests
Posted in Agriculture, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Midwest, News Desk, Wisconsin
Posted in Agriculture, Farming, Feature, Federal Policy, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Midwest, News Desk, Wisconsin
Farmland Values Feel the Heat in the Midwest
Several surprising storylines emerge from the Seventh Federal Reserve District, home of bumper crops and bellwether land values. — The Editors NATIONAL — TREND In addition to a downturn in corn and soybean prices – corn fell 12 percent and…
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