AgribusinessLand agents in Cumbria, Wales, Devon and Somerset say auctions are still drawing strong local and overseas bidding, with several blocks of bare land selling well above their guides.
AgribusinessAfter two lean years many US grain farms have burned through the working capital built in better times, a Farm Credit Mid-America lender says, as strong land values prop up balance sheets but not cash flow.
Tight margins, high land values, GLP-1-driven protein demand, shrinking export populations and new biofuel markets are reshaping US agriculture, CoBank's Jacqui Fatka told a Women in Agribusiness summit.
AgribusinessVineyard land on the Heretaunga Plains is selling at pastoral prices, one 30.7 ha block with a $2.8 million rateable value fetched $800,000, as the wine downturn, Wattie's and McCain pulling back and years of paused water consenting under the regional council's contested TANK plan leave growers un
Land appreciation over the past decade has beaten inflation-adjusted 10-year bond yields by about 3.5 percentage points, and farmers remain the main buyers, while Kansas auctions ranged from $1,900 to $3,304 an acre for dryland in August and September.
AgribusinessMore than two million American landowners rent out 348 million acres of farmland, and 79% of it belongs to landlords who do not farm, a USDA survey has found.
