Iowa farmland value down 13 percent in two years

Farmland values fell 3.9 percent in Iowa this year, to an average $7,633 an acre, according to an annual survey by Iowa State University. It was the second year in a row of decline in the No. 1 corn state. “Farmland values have now fallen almost 13 percent from the historically high 2013 values,” said ISU’s… » Read More

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