Land values hold despite falling farm income

Land values hold despite falling farm income

Land values seem to be holding. Randy Dickhut with Farmers National

Company tells Brownfield there’s less land on the market and interest rates are

still favorable for borrowers.

“Even though [interest rates are] edging up, if you look at the longer-term

they’re still a lot lower,” Dickhut told Brownfield Ag News Tuesday, “and that

corresponds and is capitalized into land values too.”

Sellers are primarily those who inherit land and find that dividing proceeds

from a sale is simpler than dividing land among survivors.

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