Land Values

Here is an interesting perspective on land values from Sara Schafer, AgWeb.com Business and Crops Online Editor.  Sara talks about Global factors that impact your farm value. She quotes Tim Hopper, chief economist at TIAA-CREF, a financial services and investing organizaiton, saying, “People have an intuitive sense of what their land is worth. Yet to stay ahead of the curve, he says, farmers should think beyond their farm gates.”  Click here for the entire article.

Here’s an excerpt from an article on land values published in the November 2013 issue of Progressive Farmer….”Clift Land Brokers has a big footprint when it comes to farm and ranch land, leaving George Clift with a broad perspective.  The broker says there are two regions he’d look to invest in today: the High Plains of Texas or the eastern areas of North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.  In the High Plains, he’d focus on grain-deficit areas, where the commodity brings a premium over the Midwest. He says land here is a consistent producer, drawing from underground aquifers. “Returns of farms in …

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