Peoples Perspective

The Closing Disclosure Breakdown

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Kalen Ludwig and her team at Peoples Company partner with Settle Up to close their real estate transactions. Danielle Guisinger with Settle Up is an expert in many areas of the closing process, but this blog features Danielle’s breakdown of a CLOSING DISCLOSURE.  When buying...

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Weekly Auction Results: 3/6/22–3/12/22

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20 tracts went up for auction last week, representing 2,067 acres in the Iowa market and bringing an average dollar per acre of $8,913.   Of these tracts, only seven tracts met our criteria of 85% tillable to calculate the $/Tillable and $/CSR2. The average dollar per tillable acre...

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Weekly Auction Results: 2/27/22–3/5/22

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Iowa saw 2,880 acres change hands last week, bringing an average dollar per acre of $13,544, average dollar per tillable acre of $14,261, and an average dollar per CSR2 of $188. This is up 3% from the previous week and 11% from Q4 2021. Peoples Company had a couple great auctions, including...

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What's Driving Grain Markets?

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What began as a rising tide in post-Derecho, 2020 turned into the perfect storm of high demand and an uncertain supply in 2021. So far, in 2022, the grain markets continue to ride that momentum. China bought record amounts of corn in 2021 and pushed grain markets across the board to highs not...

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Land Auction Results - February 2022

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In a typical year, February is considered a slow month in terms of Iowa auction sales. So far, 2022 is not a typical year. Iowa saw 74 tracts sell at public auction, bringing over 8,100 acres to the market.   These tracts brought an average dollar per acre of $10,669,...

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Land Investment Monthly - March 2022

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Photo Credit: Isabel DeBre, AP   Biggest Rise in Midwest Land Values in Over a Decade Agricultural bankers reported a 22% increase in farmland values in the central Corn Belt during 2021, and they expect values to continue to rise in the opening months of this year, said...

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Five Emerging Technologies Impacting Farmland Investing

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By Dave Muth, Managing Partner, Alternative Equity Advisors Agriculture remains among the least digitized industry sectors (Fig 1).  McKinsey Global Institute’s digitization index rates agriculture with ‘relatively low digitization’ across all the metrics they evaluate...

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Weekly Auction Results: 2/20/22–2/26/22

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Auction activity picked up this week, and Iowa saw 32 tracts or 3,087 acres sell at public auction (this is up from the previous week's 17 tracts / 1,954 acres).  These tracts brought an average dollar per acre of $11,706, average dollar per tillable acre of $14,527 and...

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Mollie Aronowitz, AFM Presented Early Career Award by Iowa Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers

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ANKENY, Iowa (AgPR) Feb. 17, 2022 — The Iowa Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers has presented its 2022 Early Career Award to Mollie Aronowitz, AFM. Aronowitz was presented the award at the February annual meeting of the Iowa Chapter of...

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2022 Crystal Ball Outlook

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According to the United States Department of Agriculture, Iowa has led the nation in corn production for the last 27 consecutive years and 42 of the last 43 years. In the 2021 calendar year, we witnessed spikes in market statistics for agricultural cropland in Iowa, such as $/CSR2 point, as...

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