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Despite rising interest rates and lower farm income, Iowa farmland values averaged a record ... Values inched up 3.7% from 2022 after increases of 17% in 2022 and 29% in 2021, the ISU Land Value ...
And farmland values, often a big part of growers' assets, are holding steady after a couple years of record high prices. Average Iowa farmland values fell 6.4% from 2014 to 2019, an annual ISU ...
In 2011, the state had 92,300 corn farms on 30,700,000 acres (12,400,000 ha), the average size being 333 acres (135 ha), and the average dollar value per acre being US$6,708. In the same year, there were 13.7 million harvested acres of corn for grain, producing 2.36 billion bushels, which yielded 172.0 bu/acre, with US$14.5 billion of corn ...
The group, which claims more than 153,000 members, found that 23 Iowa farm-production companies and related business have slashed 4,097 jobs through Sept. 18 as low crop prices and rising expenses ...
The percentage of Americans who live on a farm diminished from nearly 25% during the Great Depression to about 2% now, [8] and only 0.1% of the United States population works full-time on a farm. As the agribusiness lobby grows to near $60 million per year, [ 9 ] the interests of agricultural corporations remain highly represented.
Iowa Select Farms is a pork production operation headquartered in Iowa Falls, the largest in Iowa, and the fourth largest in the United States. [1] It grew in the 1970s, was officially founded in 1992 and as of 2023 produced more than 5 million pigs on 800 CAFOs in 50 Iowa counties.
Despite the decline, the average value of Iowa farmland remains 58.3% higher than it was five years ago, the report found. Strong profits helped overcome concerns about the Federal Reserve’s ...