Contributor: Jesus Martinez-Aviles Editor: Dave Price “Buy or Bury.” That’s how Brad Griffin sees the competitive dynamics of land investment. Griffin is marketing director for AcreValue, an Ithaca, New York-based company that provides information including land sales, ownership information, and crop history. Act quickly and buy that property you seek. Or delay and get buried by a competitor. If only one or two percent of available farmland transfers ownership each year (and a portion...

Contributor: Jesus Martinez Editor: Dave Price “ROI.” That may not be the first thought of motivation each morning as landowners work to preserve the century farm that their great grandparents toiled to build. But it might be the reason that the farm will survive for future generations. “The general issue with -- at least the customers that we have and folks that we talk to -- is that data is disconnected. There's a high volume of data; it's not necessarily usable. We help to provide a...