Seasons Newsletter Archives
Summer 2009 Seasons Newsletter
Investors and farmers are buying land for good returns and protection from inflation. Demand for land is surging as buyers re-enter the market. This new farmland demand is coming from several sources, replacing exchange sales which dominated our region from 1996 through 2006. Prices per acre in northern and central Illinois are the same, or very near, the levels they were last fall...
Spring 2009 Seasons Newsletter
Real estate specialist Jeff Waddell's analysis of the Illinois land market Porter Martin's comments on What Farmland Won't Do For You (fortunately)...
Some landowners who sold land to developers in 2006-07 are buying it back for 50¢ on the dollar. As we’ve reported, there’s probably a 7-year inventory of development land at current construction rates. The development premium over farmland value has narrowed sharply....
Fall 2008 Seasons Newsletter
How free-market and property rights principles have ignited global economic growth Why biofuels benefit U.S. agriculture and U.S. consumers
Summer 2008 Seasons Newsletter
How free-market and property rights principles have ignited global economic growth Farmland is a sound financial base during turbulent times
