farmland value
Farm lenders – interest rates up, land values down in future
In a nationwide survey, farm lenders "are not as optimistic as they were in the fall of 2013," say Kansas State University economist.
Farmland values plateau, dip in Plains and Midwest
Bankers in the Farm Belt say expectations of lower income this year are slowing or even reversing the years-long climb in farmland values.
Rising debt is cloud on ag sector finances
Ag economist Jason Henderson of Purdue says "what has me a little nervous" is an upturn in borrowing as the farm sector heads into a period of lower commodity prices and farm income.
What Ohio’s data-center boom means for the state’s rural communities
In FERN's latest story, produced with Switchyard Magazine, reporter Mya Frazier explores the damage—physical, economic, and emotional—done to Ohio's rural communities by the explosion of data centers and the electricity generation needed to power those centers.