Peoples Perspective

Land Investment Monthly - April 2021

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  Pigs outside a slaughterhouse in China’s Zhejiang province last July. PHOTO: CHINA DAILY/REUTERS     Peoples Company Receives Top Land Auction Honors at REALTORS® Land Institute APEX Awards Program Peoples Company, a national leader in land brokerage, land...

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Empty Shipping Containers are Disrupting Washington’s Ag Exports

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Throughout Washington State, agricultural products that should be on their way to Europe and Asia via container ships are instead at a standstill. Demand is strong, but COVID-19 has unexpectedly affected the global shipping market in a way that experts did not anticipate.   When the...

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Iowa Farmland Values: Grundy and Marshall County

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Continuing with the Iowa Farmland Values blog series, we will use the 2020 Farmland Value Survey to highlight average farmland characteristics and production costs in Grundy and Marshall County. If you are interested in acquiring similar information, contact your local extension office or...

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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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