Farmland

As 2018 takes off, a consistent question from farmers is, ‘Why do land prices continue to remain high?’

If you want to keep the fences in place, it might make long-term economic sense to maintain them properly.

An ISU survey said the average acre of Iowa farmland rose in value by 2% in 2017, to $7,326, ending the first three-year decline in values since the agricultural crisis of the mid-1980s.

Some Midwestern real estate agents claim that hunting acre prices are on the way up and tillable acres on the way down.

It’s common practice for farmers to spread manure on fields in the winter. But doing it right depends on field topography, weather patterns, and common sense.