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Wilkin County, Minnesota - May 20 This 230.35 +/- gross acre property located in Wilkin County, Minnesota sold via the online-only...

As farmland owners thinking about selling, and potential buyers eye appealing land during the first month of 2025’s second quarter, they...

A sprawling, 8,488-acre Oklahoma property owned by the same family since the 1940s was sold in early May. The Hilseweck Ranch, located in...

An ever-changing, unpredictable trade war, jittering financial markets, and recession fears have many people wondering what it will mean...

Farmer optimism reached the highest level in four years as they assess current conditions, future trade prospects, and their own bottom...

The average cash rental rate for Iowa farmland decreased for the first time since 2019, according to the 2025 Cash Rental Rates for Iowa...

How many billionaires do you know walking around their property in jeans and boots…setting things on fire? That is what Kyle Bass, one of...

Sales volume is up a little. Prices are, too. But higher quality farmland may be the surprise: farmland values have dropped from what...

Demand for farmland dropped, the amount of farmland declined, and the number of farms and amount of acreage sold also went down according...

In the early 2000s, corn prices were hovering around $1.80 a bushel. It was a bleak economic reality that pushed many American farmers,...

When a 531-acre farm in central Iowa sold at auction in early April, it was the end of an era for one family who knew the land well....

Thanks largely to payments from the federal government, Missouri farmers will see a 9% net increase in income, according to the Spring...

California’s farmland values have been falling, much like Scott Bozzo, the state’s American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers 2025 farm manager of the year, expected. A rising number of bankruptcies, fortunately, have not sent those values into a free fall. But the state has still lost an estimated $17 billion in farmland value over the past year, Bozzo estimates.

Grundy & Livingston County, IL | March 5, 2025 This Grundy and Livingston County, IL farmland sold for a total of $4,212,564, averaging...

Interest rates are not as high right now as some fear, and the policymakers in charge of setting those rates should be free from...

An aerial view of the Abbott Ranch, also known as the Metzger Ranch. (Courtesy of Hall and Hall) You may not find a more historic farm in...

Farm bankruptcies are back, climbing much faster in the United States. Fortunately, they remain significantly lower than during the...

What really became evident in the fourth quarter of 2024 will be a trend to watch in 2025, according to Luke Worrell, Worrell Land...

Demand for Canadian farmland has allowed it to reach nearly double-digit appreciation over the past year, which helps to offset a larger...

What goes up must come down, as the saying goes. And sometimes when something goes up a lot…and rapidly…it must come down, too. That has...