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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 ...
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The average price of Iowa farmland reached $11,835 an acre last year, an ISU survey shows, the second year in a row that values set a record high. They have climbed 63% compared to five years ago ...
The US is the world's largest producer of corn. [8] According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the average U.S. yield for corn was 177 bushels per acre, up 3.3 percent over 2020 and a record high, with 16 states posting state records in output, and Iowa reporting a record of 205 bushels of corn per acre.
In the 1990s, soybeans consist of 450,000 acres of land, and by 2017 the amount rose to 6.4 million. Annual export was worth $26 billion (~$31.8 billion in 2023) annually before 2017.US farmers contributed to funding an organization dedicated to research about the prosperity of US soybeans in China. [ 14 ]
In January 2015, the Des Moines Water Works "sued drainage districts in three northern Iowa counties, claiming the tiles there act as a conduit that accelerates the movement of fertilizer from farm fields into Iowa waterways". [14] Between 2010 and 2015 more than 60 Iowa cities and towns had high nitrate levels in drinking water. [14]
A new U.S. Department of Agriculture report shows cropland in Iowa climbed 4.1% to an average of $9,800 an acre, based on a snapshot of farmland values in June compared to the same month a year ...
Iowa's farmland values climbed 3.7% this year over 2022 to average $11,835 per acre, an Iowa State University survey shows. It's the fifth year the statewide average has increased, the survey shows.