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By Elizabeth Campbell 12월 10, 2013 U.S. farmland values at a “tipping point” may fall as much as 10 percent in 2014 as commodity prices ease, according to Terry Kastens, agricultural economist emeritus at Kansas State University. Rising global crop output and stable renewable-fuel standards are “leading to a flattening in commodity prices,” Kastens, based i..

08 12월, 22:11www.journalgazette.net Purdue University researchers say only about half of the growers own the ground they harvest. This is at a time when the average per-acre value has increased from $2,693 to $7,553 over the past decade.    Such topics will be discussed during the annual Indiana Farm Bureau convention set for Friday and Saturday at Grand Wa..

02 12월, 13:33theconversation.com A lot of the current response to Treasurer Joe Hockey’s decision to block ADM’s A$3.4 billion takeover for GrainCorp is political rhetoric and doesn’t have to be taken seriously. But as Jeffrey Wilson wrote in The Conversation, it does raise interesting questions over the criteria utilised by the Foreign…    Author ..

30 11월, 10:29cornandsoybeandigest.com While cropland values in Ohio increased in 2012 and 2013, they are expected to remain flat or even decline in 2014, says Barry Ward, an economist from Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES). Ohio cropland value rose 12% this year, with bare cropland averaging $5,600 an acre..

Why do we clamour to keep foreign-owned car makers here, paying them billions of dollars to stay, while being wary of foreign investment in farms? Around 0.1 per cent of foreign investment last year was in agriculture, with mining receiving 30 per cent, manufacturing close to 19 per cent and the rest in various service industries. We know that foreign investment creates jobs a..

November 21, 2013 Economist touts farmland as a solid investment Mark Dotzour, chief economist and director of research at the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, delivered that prediction Wednesday as the keynote speaker at the Great Plains Land Expo. Investors have flocked to agricultural land and other investments, including gold and apartments, as a hedge against t..

3 Reasons Farmland Values Could Head South Compared to last year, farmland values have increased, but several signs point to a moderation or slight decline in values. For the past few years, farmland values have been on a constant incline. Farmers can expect their land to continue to hold value, but most bankers expect values to soon plateau, according to reports fro..

21 11월, 05:11www.enterprisepub.com After years of giddy growth in U.S. farmland values, a new Federal survey indicates a plateau in that growth is underway. Jeff Caldwell of Agriculture.com , wrote recently that although numbers show a “year-over-year double-digit gain” as of October across the greatest portion of the Corn Belt, the trend “effectively end..

November 18, 2013 In the quarter ending September 30th China’s gross domestic product increased 7.8% from the same three month period a year before.  According to Citigroup economists, China’s aging demographics and shrinking workforce due to its on-child policy may cut 3.25% off of China’s annual growth rate between 2012 and 2030.  To combat its ‘deterio..