Farmland

Everything you need to know about farmland value, including trends, recent sales, and upcoming land auctions. This section also contains details on renting ground and farmland ownership.

Stabilizing stream banks

Take a look at the creek running through your property. Do you see bank erosion and trees collapsing in? The stream banks need your help with stabilization.

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Why ranchers burn pasture each year

Here's a look at how and why pasture land in the Flint Hills is managed with prescribed burns.

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Will COVID-19 be a small shadow compared with economic downturn to come?

David Whitaker reached out to friends in the land market as well as farmers to try to judge the tenor of where the market is heading and what to tell clients.

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Ageless Iron

Caterpillar 30 is a family mainstay

By Ageless Iron

Tractor has been on the same California farm since 1932.

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Top Shops

Idaho Shop Tour with Custom Overhead Crane

By Top Shops

Dave Mowitz heads to Genesee, Idaho, to visit Al Krick’s shop.

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Women in Agriculture

SF Special: How one young, farmer’s daughter is carrying on her family’s legacy

By Women in Agriculture

A full-time animal nutritionist and beginning farmer, Lillie is carrying on her family’s legacy through hard work, fight, and determination on her family’s third-generation farm.

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When USDA stops paying rent, idled land usually goes back into crops

A Reagan-era creation, the Conservation Reserve is the largest U.S. land retirement program, paying landowners an annual rent if they idle environmentally fragile cropland for 10-15 years.

The sun sets behind grain bins on a farm.

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Iowa Land Values Rise in 2019

Believe it or not. Favorable interest rates, stronger-than-expected crop yields, and limited land supply combined to help drive values up.

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It’s Farmland Sale Season. Are You In the Market?

If you’re in the mood to buy farmland, you’re likely to see more of it available this winter. Be prepared for competition.

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Owning Farmland Is an Attractive Strategy for Investors

The 2019 Purdue Farmland Value Survey shows that average-quality land declined 0.9% from June 2018 to June 2019.

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Farmland Auction: Southwest Minnesota Land Averages $6,900 per Acre

Southwest Minnesota is known for its abundance of lakes, and its high-quality farmland. On November 21, it also was home to two different land auctions in neighboring counties.

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Land Values Hold

Smart money in the investment market is shifting to American farmland.

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Tip of the Day

Farmer-Designed Planter Wheel Storage

When the bearings in a closing or gauge wheel go, I switch the broken wheel for a new one in five minutes and replace the bearings in the... read more