Good land in a good area is a recipe for a fine farmland auction. It certainly was for the heirs of the Margie Ann Hansen Estate, which sold 163 acres of Cherokee County, Iowa, farmland November 7.

In Kansas visit, USDA Secretary talks trade, market assistance, and immigration.

Inventor’s homestead and farmland averages $2,700 per acre. Plus, sales from Illinois, Indiana, and South Dakota.

After bidding between three potential buyers, the original Bi-Rotor prototype combine sold for $22,000 at Underwood’s estate auction held near Burr Oak, Kansas, on October 29.

Delays in planting caused by rain have stalled planting progress so far, and could prompt farmers to halt wheat planting altogether and wait until corn, grain sorghum, or soybean planting in 2019.

Land sales don’t get much more epic than the October 17 auction of Illinois farm and hunting ground. It was epic in every way: size (4,396 acres); volume (85 tracts); and proceeds ($13,056,280).  

Mark Underwood and Ralph Lagergren’s XBR-2 Combine – the first Bi-Rotor combine – will sell at auction on the Underwood farm in north-central Kansas October 29.

Mercer County auction draws top dollar. Plus, sale results from Kansas and South Dakota.

With rain on the way, wheat producers wonder: Should we plant or wait?

For two generations, the Klocke family farmed near Viola, in Audubon County, in the southwest corner of Iowa. Lawrence Klocke, the second generation to farm the land, died in February. His heirs chose to sell two tracts of land at auction September 22.

It was a good day for a sale.

Tract 1, 77 acres north of Viola Center, is a rolling patch featuring mostly Exira silty clay loam soils with a Corn Suitability Rating II of 78.6, well above the county average of 67.1. It sold for $962,500 ($12,500 per acre).