farmland value

Rural bankers expect farmland prices will continue to decline.  In the latest Creighton University Rural Mainstreet Index, Midwest lenders on average estimated that farmland prices declined by 4.0% over the past 12 months and expect farmland prices to fall by another 3.2% over t...

The USDA says cash rent for cropland in Washington increased this year to $203 per acre.  That’s up $5.00 from the 2017 rate.  Irrigated cropland in Washington, moved up $8.00 an acre in the past year to $358.  Meanwhile, non-irrigated crop land rental came in at $75.00 per acre, up $2.0...

The impact of the current trade climate on land prices remains unknown, but Farmers National Company says time will tell.  Farmers National says there is no easy answer as to what effect trade issues are having on land prices currently.  The com...

According to the Kansas City’s Fed’s quarterly Survey of Agriculture Credit Conditions, farm real estate markets remained relatively stable in the fourth quarter of 2017.  Values for all types of farmland across the upper mid-west and Rocky Mountains declined only 3% from a year ago.  Prior to the fourth...

While research suggests that there has been less farm and ranch land for sale than usual over the past few years, Farmers National Company is reporting a 50% increase in listings.  Experts said the industry is experiencing a post-harvest bump in land prices in most grain producing areas, meaning that with above average crop yields in most locations, farmer optimism has increased as has the bidding

Industry experts are scratching their heads over the relatively high price of farmland while commodity prices are still low.  The two factors often have a strong correlation between each other.  FarmFutures.com quotes Steve Bruere, President of the land-brokerage firm Peoples Co. of Iowa as saying,...

The value of a farm, cropland and cash rents are all down in 2016 according to the USDA’s Chief Economist Rob Johannson.   According to Johannson, cropland decreased by $40 per acre and cash rents are down four percent nationally.   “...