Land Values Blogs

May 31, 2022

Weekly Auction Results: 5/22/22–5/28/22

16 tracts sold in Iowa last week, bringing an average dollar per acre of $14,158, average dollar per tillable acre...
May 23, 2022

Weekly Auction Results: 5/15/22–5/21/22

16 Iowa tracts sold at public auction last week, bringing an average dollar per acre of $9,556; average dollar per...
May 16, 2022

Weekly Auction Results: 5/8/22–5/14/22

The appraisal team tracked six auctions in Iowa last week, bringing an average dollar per acre of $9,829, average...
May 9, 2022

Weekly Auction Results: 5/1/22–5/7/22

We tracked 10 auctions in Iowa last week.  The average dollar per acre was $12,708, average dollar per tillable...
May 4, 2022

Land Investment Monthly - May 2022

Photo Credit: AgWeb   Survey Shows Increasing Land Values The REALTORS® Land Institute - Iowa...
May 3, 2022

Targeted Off-Market Farmland Acquisitions

For at least the last fifteen years in California, the amount of capital pursuing farmland investments has grown...
April 26, 2022

Weekly Auction Results: 4/17/22–4/23/22

It was a slower week last week, with only seven tracts selling in Iowa (only two of these tracts met our criteria...
April 19, 2022

Weekly Auction Results: 4/10/22–4/16/22

Iowa saw 33 tracts sell last week (up from the prior week's 17 tracts.)  The average dollar per acre was...

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April 12, 2022

What is on your work list for 2022?

WATCH VIDEO: Farmer Reshaping A Waterway In my part of the country, Land Managers spend most of the first quarter...
April 1, 2022

Iowa Land Values Update - 2022 Quarter 1

Peoples Company tracks agricultural auctions across the state of Iowa. From this data, we calculate the average...
April 1, 2022

Land Investment Monthly - April 2022

Photo Credit: SeedWorld   Prices Being Paid for Illinois Farmland 'Unprecedented' Unprecedented...
March 29, 2022

Weekly Auction Results: 3/20/22–3/26/22

The appraisal team tracked 22 auctions in Iowa last week, totalling 2,160 acres.  These tracts brought an...
March 22, 2022

Do Your Due Diligence

What does it take to become competent in your daily appraisal work? USPAP 2020-2022 sets guidelines for competency...
March 22, 2022

Weekly Auction Results: 3/13/22–3/19/22

There were 19 auctions we were able to track results for this week, bringing an average dollar per acre of $12,986,...
March 1, 2022

Land Investment Monthly - March 2022

Photo Credit: Isabel DeBre, AP   Biggest Rise in Midwest Land Values in Over a Decade Agricultural...
February 23, 2022

2022 Crystal Ball Outlook

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, Iowa has led the nation in corn production for the last...
February 7, 2022

Iowa Agricultural Market Analysis

By Lucas Riesenberg, Agricultural Appraisal Intern Iowa Demographics According to the United States Census...
February 1, 2022

Land Investment Monthly - February 2022

Photo Credit: Nathan Thomas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln   Farmland values soaring in Iowa. How...
January 24, 2022

Weekly Auction Results: 1/16/22–1/22/22

20 tracts sold at auction last week in Iowa, bringing an average $/acre of $8,153, average $/tillable acre of...
January 11, 2022

Iowa Land Values Update - 2021 Quarter 4

Peoples Company tracks agricultural auctions across the state of Iowa. From this data, we calculate the average...