What’s Driving the 3.1% Decline in Iowa Farmland Values?

accountMktgLSB | calendar-monthJanuary 13, 2025

Using the 2024 Iowa State University Land Value Survey and report from Peoples Company, Successful Farming helps answer this question. Find details to the positive and negative factors impacting Iowa farmland values. These same influencing factors are found in additional Corn Belt states, which include our Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Learn more here – https://bit.ly/4jdheqk

An AFO Interview – Maybe it’s just a bluff?

accountMktgLSB | calendar-monthDecember 20, 2024

Don’t miss this AFO interview by Dave Price, Editor of American Farmland Owner, as he sits down with Dr. Ernie Goss, Professor of Economics at Creighton University to discuss what the numbers are saying about smaller rural communities and farmland across the Midwest. Maybe it’s just a bluff?

The interview recap includes links to Creighton University’s Mainstreet Economy Historical Data from 2014 to 2024, which includes our Midwest reporting states of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, along with Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Wyoming. Find those report details here: https://bit.ly/3VP59xy

Midwest: Fall land auction results you need to know

accountMktgLSB | calendar-monthDecember 13, 2024

Fall land auction results, featuring recent Midwest land sales in our states of North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa, help shed insights into the 2025 land market. Although cautious optimism is the outlook for next year, there’s still plenty of bright spots of resiliency in recent Midwest land auction results. Farm Progress – https://bit.ly/3BBnh78

80 Iowa Acres Sell for $19,000 per Acre

accountMktgLSB | calendar-monthDecember 11, 2024

This December 5, 2024 article from Successful Farming, produced in partnership with American Farmland Owner, details six notable farmland transactions from August and September 2024 in our Midwest reporting states of Iowa and Illinois. Find their details here – https://bit.ly/4gvA9dS

December 2024 Land Values – Featuring our Midwest State of Iowa

accountMktgLSB | calendar-monthDecember 6, 2024

Doug Hensley, President of Hertz Real Estate Services, recent blog post reflects on this past year’s activities that impacted land values and sales, farm related businesses, and harvest. Concluding that “it’s just a different market than a year ago,” he shares the outlook for 2025 comes with “clear-eyed profitability concerns.” Find details to land sales from the states ten regions, as 2024 comes to a close. December 2024 Wallace’s Farmer MarketPlace Extra – https://www.hertz.ag/blog/detail/december-2024-wallaces-farmer-marketplace-extra

Peoples Company Iowa Land Auction Results for November 2024

accountMktgLSB | calendar-monthDecember 5, 2024

“The appraisal team at Peoples Company was able to track 223 tracts or 22,530 acres sold at public auction in Iowa during November 2024. The average dollar per acre was $12,090, the average dollar per tillable acre was $13,949, and the average dollar per CSR2 was $180.” Find their full auction report for our Midwest state of Iowa – https://peoplescompany.com/blog/land-auction-results-november-2024

November 2024 Land Values Update for Iowa

accountMktgLSB | calendar-monthNovember 14, 2024

Doug Hensley, President of Hertz Real Estate Services, shares the latest land values update for our reporting state of Iowa. Although signs point to softening land values as predicted, early harvest results are offering “more smiles than frowns.” Key land sales from Iowa’s 9 state regions are featured – https://bit.ly/4fCMI6S