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Peoples Company Launches Corporate Services Division

 April 18, 2025
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Leveraging its scale, expertise, and global reach, Peoples Company will consult for large organizations with diverse agriculture holdings to maximize the value of their assets.

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Peoples Company Agents Recognized as Land Star Award Top Producers for 2024

 March 28, 2025
 News & Events   Real Estate 
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Congratulations to Peoples Company agents Matt Adams, Lindsey Brown, Steve Bruere, Adam Crist, Jake Sickels, and Travis Smock for each winning the coveted Land Star Top Producer Award in 2024! Their dedication and hard work haven't gone unnoticed, and this award is a well‑deserved recognition of their exceptional achievements in the land real estate market.

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

 March 19, 2025
 Land Auctions   News & Events 
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Peoples Company, a national leader in land brokerage, agricultural appraisal, land and energy management, crop insurance, and capital markets, received top land auction honors at the REALTORS® Land Institute’s APEX Award ceremony in Tucson, Arizona on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. The APEX Awards, held in conjunction with The Land Report, is a top annual awards program designed to recognize excellence and performance of land sale professionals.

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Peoples Company Acquires Midwest Land Company and Roach Land Management

 February 11, 2025
 News & Events   Land Management 
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Peoples Company, a recognized leader in integrated land management, brokerage, appraisal, and energy solutions with offices across the nation, today announced it has acquired Wayne, Neb.-based Midwest Land Company and Plainfield, Iowa-based Roach Land Management. All clients from both firms have transitioned to Peoples Company, which is actively managing farmland in all major ag regions in the country.

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Peoples Company Acquires Leading Illinois Farm Management Firm, Land Pro LLC

 January 28, 2025
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Peoples Company, a recognized leader in integrated land management, brokerage, appraisal, and energy solutions with offices across the nation, announced it has acquired Oswego-based Land Pro LLC. Effective on January 1, 2025, Land Pro LLC, its owner Ray Brownfield, and members of the Land Pro LLC staff became an affiliate of Peoples Company, harnessing the technology, expertise and capital markets resources of Peoples Company, while continuing to operate under the Land Pro LLC name. The acquisition grows Peoples Company’s presence in Illinois, having acquired The Atkins Group’s farmland management business and opening an Urbana, Illinois, office in March 2024.

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Peoples Company Acquires Lincoln-based United Farm and Ranch Management

 January 15, 2025
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Peoples Company, a recognized leader in integrated land management, brokerage, appraisal, and energy solutions with offices across the nation, today announced it acquired Lincoln-based United Farm and Ranch Management (UFARM). UFARM, a nearly 100-year-old land management company, will add 15 employees and four offices, along with more than 90,000 acres of farm and ranch land under management, to Peoples Company's growing team and portfolio.

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Rooted in an ARA Designation

 November 25, 2024
 Agriculture   News & Events 
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Growing up on my family’s dairy farm in the picturesque hills of Northeast Iowa, I always felt a deep sense of peace walking along the pastures and field driveways. Even though I didn’t know where those walks might lead, there was something grounding about them. Today, I find that same sense of stability when I talk with landowners about their family farms or recent land investments. After 12 years in the appraisal field, I’m honored to hold the ARA designation, which has been both humbling and grounding in my career.

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Rural Appraiser Earns Highest Professional Status

 November 21, 2024
 News & Events   Agriculture 
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Emily Oberbroeckling, ARA, Peoples Company, has been awarded the Accredited Rural Appraiser (ARA) designation from the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers® (ASFMRA®).

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Peoples Company Announces Expansion of Farm Management in Nebraska with Partnership with Lallman, Paulson & Brettmann, Inc.

 October 22, 2024
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Peoples Company, a recognized leader in integrated land management, brokerage, appraisal, and energy solutions with offices across the nation, today announced a new partnership with Fremont, Neb.,-based farm management, appraisal and brokerage Lallman, Paulson & Brettmann, Inc. The firm's partners, Scott Brettmann and Shae Smith, will begin utilizing Peoples Company's industry-leading farm management technology and platform to increase opportunities for their clients to maximize yields.

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Peoples Company Receives Campaign of the Year Award at NAA Marketing Competition

 July 30, 2024
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For the fifth time, Peoples Company has won the coveted Campaign of the Year Award from the NAA Marketing Competition, presented by Blue River Digital. The award was given for Peoples Company's work on the C&W Farm Auction, a portfolio comprised of 6,693 acres m/l in Wichita County, Kansas

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