Randy Dickhut

The stronger land prices of late 2021 continued higher through the first half of 2022. After a calm period at the start of the year with prices steady, prices took another jump up as a result of the outbreak of war in Ukraine and ongoing inflation fears ...

U.S. farmland supply-and-demand is different than in recent years. As commodity prices rose this year and investor interest returned to the market, the supply of available farmland followed suit. Farmers National Company’s Randy Dickhut said over the past year, most of the Grain Belt saw increasing amounts of land getting sold. ...

Who is purchasing U.S. farmland in 2021? Randy Dickhut Senior Vice President of Real Estate Operations at the Farmers National Company, said when looking at the numbers nationwide, a wide variety of farmers with operations of all sizes are purchasing the biggest percentage of farmland ...

Interest in buying agricultural land continues to grow after a COVID-19 slowdown blanketed the land market in 2020. A Farmers National Company release says farmers are feeling more financially secure because of rising commodity prices and large government payments last year ...

The winter is typically a busy time for agricultural land sales nationwide. Randy Dickhut, Senior Vice President at Farmers National Company, said it’s a sellers’ market right now. “When we’re looking at starting in the fall time period on through the winter, so far, coming up on spring as the typical farmland selling season, we’ve seen more optimism from buyers, who’ve become more aggressive, bi

As far as value of good farm land in this new year, what can we expect "Steady to somewhat firmer land values in 2021," said Randy Dickhut with Farmers National Company. He added he has good reasons for that upbeat forecast. "With the stronger commodity prices and the extra cash producers would have received in 2020, I think they're using that to help support purchase of that farm

According to Farmers National Company, the 2020 land market is closing with optimism. The year started with land prices strengthening before COVID-19. The pandemic paused the land market before interest returned in the summer. Now, Randy Dickhut of Farmers National Company says an improved outlook for grain prices and government aid increasing farm income has resurrected interest in farmland ...

Farmers National Company says there are some questions abounding in the current farmland market. There is legitimate worry that the negative financial situation will finally drive land prices lower. Farm and ranch lands make up 82% of the total assets owned by American agriculture...

Landowners appear to be getting more interested in selling agricultural land.  The total amount of land that Farmers National Company has listed for sale is up 21% compared to last year.  Randy Dickhut, senior vice president at Farmers National Company, says most of the sales are coming from individuals or ownership groups who’ve decided that now is the time to sell.   “They may have i... Read Mor

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,...