Peoples Perspective

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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Weekly Auction Results: 2/13/22–2/19/22

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12 tracts sold at public auction last week, with a total of 1,270 acres bringing an average dollar per acre of $12,500.  Eight of these tracts met our criteria for calculating dollar per tillable acre and dollar per CSR2.  The average dollar per tillable was $14,466 bringing the average...

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Maximizing Value: Breaking Properties into Bite-Sized Pieces

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** This property is not for sale and is only used as an example Have you ever wondered why real estate professionals split whole properties into multiple tracts? We believe at the simplest level, it is all about maximizing the value of the farm by increasing the size of the buyer pool. To do...

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Weekly Auction Results: 2/6/22–2/12/22

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18 tracts sold at public auction last week, bringing an average dollar per acre of $12,098, average dollar per tillable acre of $13,379 and an average dollar per CSR2 of $171, which is $1.00 per point higher than the 2021 Q4 dollar per CSR2 average.  The high sale of the week went to a...

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