Peoples Perspective

Assisting Farmers Through Creative Financing Solutions

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Blog by Joseph Hermann, Structured Finance Advisor, Ag Capital Advisors Industry: Agriculture is a major industry in the United States with over two million farms encompassing 922 million acres and contributing 5.4% or $1.05 trillion to US GDP. During 2019 through 2020, agricultural commodity...

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Peoples Company Receives Top Land Auction Honors at REALTORS® Land Institute APEX Awards Program

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Steve Bruere named Broker of the Year in the Auction Land Sales Category for the third consecutive year; Three Peoples Company team members named Top 20 National Producers (CLIVE, Iowa) – Peoples Company, a national leader in land brokerage, land management, land investment, and...

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Offers Are Great But Closings Are Better

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Imagine going through a tough negotiation with a potential Buyer, spending time and effort to compromise with everyone and you finally have an executed agreement, and then it falls into a dark hole. That is the way most parties in a real estate transaction feel when the property goes to closing....

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This is Your Grandfather’s Land Market

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Guest blog by Scott Oakes, Harvest Capital The best predictor of where the land market is going can be found in the grain market. In the past, I would say that there was a three to six-month lag from a new rally in corn and soybeans to when one would see higher farmland prices. Now the lag is...

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Land Investment Monthly - March 2021

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  Farmland Insider: Kansas Auction of 10,900 Acres Sells for $38 Million It is hard to imagine the logistics of handling a land sale as big as the one Peoples Company and Lund Company managed on Thursday, February 18 in Liberal, Kansas. The numbers are staggering: 10,935.17 acres 41...

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The Impact of Radio in Rural America

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Peoples Company Land Managers travel the countryside working with some of the finest individuals in the agriculture industry. We have news and information in the palm of our hand, but there is still something organic about driving down a gravel road and listening to the local AM news radio....

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Unpacking Conservation Easements

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In recent years, land use conservation easements (CE) have become more widely utilized across the country. But what are they and how do they work? As with many other land-use tools, there are many variations. There are two primary models. The first restricts development near...

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Can Weeds Be Converted Into Cover Crops?

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Washington State University is taking part in a multi-institutional research project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, to help develop a winter cover crop that can thrive in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Cover crops are different from cash crops as their primary job is to...

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Financialization of Farmland

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Introduction Since the mid-2000s, there has been an increasing interest in farmland as an investment asset among institutional style investors. This trend is expected to continue well into the future as the number of investors seeking the characteristics of farmland increases. Such investors...

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The Effects of Inflation on Farmland Values

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The question “Why is farmland a good investment?” typically generates the response from anyone involved with the asset class that farmland investments serve as an inflation hedge, and that farmland also provides important diversification benefits compared to other financial...

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