News, Insights & Interviews Archive

Sioux County, Iowa: On December 18, two tracts of farmland were offered at public auction via the buyer’s choice auction method. Tract 1...

As the calendar turns to 2024, it officially begins an election year. Does that mean Congress will become even more unproductive in the...

Thinking about investing in a publicly traded farmland REIT in the new year? The evaluation of its overall value can be a bit...

New Year’s Day means a mid-day kickoff for college football fans, especially supporters of the Iowa Hawkeyes and Tennessee Volunteers....

This interview is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts You can “Google” many things on the internet. However, Eric O’Keefe needs a lot of “sleuthing,” too. “We do word of mouth with landowners with brokers, with auctioneers, with appraisers. We obviously use a lot of technology, too, from a database standpoint to be able to go online and look at county records and do searches that way,” said O’Keefe, the editor of The Land Report, a Texas-based industry publication. Y

This interview is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Harrison Pittman is a key thought leader at one of the country’s top entities that follows the intersection of agriculture and the law. In his more than two decades in that role, he has never witnessed the level of scrutiny on foreign farmland ownership that he is seeing now. “What we see going on right now,” Pittman told American Farmland Owner, “…it’s a historically significant shift in this area.” Pittman is t

Flight100’s path across the Atlantic Ocean may symbolize a new journey that could benefit some farmland owners and the environment....

The new “Great Awakening” and “Great Resignation” raised wages across the United States’ labor market writ large over the past few years...

There have been many questions over the years about billionaire Ted Turner’s land purchases. Why is he buying it? What will he do with...

Jimmy John Liautaud — founder and of the Jimmy John’s Sandwiches — took the stage at the Land Investment Expo 2023 to share reflections on his success as a restauranteur, landowner, investor, and vineyard proprietor. Across four decades of entrepreneurship, Liautaud’s accomplishments can be traced directly to his willingness to work hard — and to always honor the integrity of a deal, especially one sealed by a handshake. “I was raised on [making] clean deals,” Liautaud told

Dr. Bruce Sherrick, a professor of farmland economics and director of the TIAA Center for Farmland Research at the University of Illinois, shared insights on recent soaring agricultural land prices during a breakout session at the 2023 Land Investment Expo. The presentation highlighted several key insights from the National Land Values Report 2022 , written by Sherrick and published by Peoples Company . Read more at The Land Report . Originally published on March 2, 2023.

During his recent appearance at the 2023 Land Investment Expo, geopolitical analyst Peter Ziehan guided attendees through a fast-paced tour of global dynamics, including current and future trends in demographics, labor supply, trade, and farming. Drawing on points echoed in his 2022 book, The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization , Zeihan advanced several sweeping predictions over the course of his hour-long presentation. In one particu

Jeremy Siegel said a recession this year is not inevitable — but only if the Federal Reserve pivots soon. Speaking at the 2023 Land Investment Expo in Des Moines, the professor emeritus of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business did not mince words: He believes many of the Federal Reserve’s actions since COVID-19 have been misguided. Outlining his case, Siegel argued that, at various points post-pandemic, the Fed has been either too quick or too

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy joined Land Investment Expo 2023 live via teleconference to share why, he believes, the time is right for agriculture development in The Last Frontier. “There’s tremendous opportunity in the State of Alaska, as far as I’m concerned,” Dunleavy said. Dispelling what he called a “myth that all we have in Alaska are ice and igloos,” Dunleavy told Land Expo attendees that temperatures in the summertime in the state’s interior usually fall between 60 a

There’s only one way to go when you’ve reached a peak — and that’s down. It’s an incontestable truth many US farmers may have to navigate in 2023, following last year’s record-high commodity returns. Still, in his 2023 Land Investment Expo breakout session — aptly titled “Agriculture Looking Forward” — Farm Credit Services of America Senior Vice President Jim Knuth offered insights to help buffer potential market downturns that could define 2023 Read more at The Land Report .

All it took was a moment for Sarah Frey’s life to change completely. In 1992, as a teen, she had an epiphany: rather than carrying through with her original plan to flee her family’s 80-acre Southern Illinois farm, she would instead save it. Read more at The Land Report . Originally published on March 7, 2023.

Read summarys of 2023 Land Investment Expo keynote addresses by Peter Zeihan, Vivek Ramaswamy, Jim Knuth, Mike Dunleavy, Jimmy John Liautaud, Sarah Frey and Frank Luntz. Read at Successful Farming . Originally published January 10, 2023.

A month before announcing his candidacy for President of the United States, Vivek Ramaswamy addressed more than 1,200 farmers and land investors at the 2023 Land Investment Expo. Read more at Successful Farming. Originally published February 22, 2023

How do producers increase income, add to their yearly production and save money for consumers? When it comes to Florida blueberries, some...

“Modest” may be the most fitting word for the results of the 2023 Iowa State University’s Land Values Survey. Modest gains for 2023 and...