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Land Investment Monthly - January 2015 - Land Expo Edition

The Land Investment Monthly is a round-up of articles and headlines published by the farm press, business media and financial publications with insights into buying, selling or investing in farmland, recreational ground or development ground. Follow Steve Bruere @SBruere on Twitter...

Olympic Gold Medalist Shawn Johnson on Land Investment Expo Speaker Donald Trump's

Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson will appear Sunday on NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice” as the real estate magnate and 2015 Land Investment Expo keynote Donald Trump launches his seventh season of the â€‹merciless reality television...

Iowa Ag Secretary Bill Northey Explores Aerial Seeding of Cover Crops with Peoples Company

Peoples Company in early September set the stage for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey to fuel some boots-on-the-ground dialogue surrounding the use of targeted land conservation practices on Iowa farmland. The field day began with Northey stepping onto the tarmac at Osceola Municipal...

Information Overload: Adding Value to Your Farm

We live in a society where we can find almost any information we are looking for by simply doing an internet search. You can find anything from college basketball stats in 1978, to the part number of a headlight for a new John Deere R Series tractor. On the other hand, farm owners or...

Energy Entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens Shares Outlook on Oil Prices

Oil and energy entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens shares with Neil Cavutoa of Fox Business News a global outlook on production, inventories and oil prices heading into 2015.

Land Expo Speaker Dennis Gartman: A Take on Russia, Oil, the Rouble and Vladimir Putin

Upcoming Land Investment Expo speaker Dennis Gartman, editor of The Gartman Letter, comments on the uncomfortable position of the Russian economy in light of a “collapsing” rouble. His remarks on CNBC include predictions of political turmoil – given an...

Land Investment Monthly - November 2014

The Land Investment Monthly is a round-up of articles and headlines published by the farm press, business media and financial publications with insights into buying, selling or investing in farmland, recreational ground or development ground. Follow Steve Bruere @SBruere on...

Real Estate Magnate Donald J. Trump to Headline 2015 Land Investment Expo

CLIVE, Iowa – Farm producers and agricultural real estate professionals will hear from one of the best known real estate entrepreneurs on earth, Donald J. Trump, at the 2015 Land Investment Expoon January 23, at the Sheraton West Des Moines Hotel. Called the archetypal businessman and...

The New Farm Bill Choices - What Should I Do?

A guest post by Paul Neiffer, CPA, of CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP, on choices surrounding the new farm bill. I had the privilege of speaking in front of a full house for Peoples Company on Monday November 3, 2014, on the new farm bill. I have given many seminars on the new farm bill this...

2015 Farmland Rental Rates: What Should I Charge?

Click here for a new post with information on 2016 farmland rental rates. There has been a lot of chatter in the past few months regarding rental rates for 2015.Corn and bean prices are significantly down from the record-high prices we saw of the past few years. But as a landowner, how do you...

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