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Iowa farm sales were second only to California's at $59 billion, the data show. Natasha Wilson checks the pigs on her family farm while doing chores Monday, Feb. 12, 2024 near West Chester, Iowa.
China a minor owner of Iowa land; Canada has the most. ... Canada is the largest holder of Iowa farmland at close to 200,000 acres, followed by Italy at 104,400 acres, USDA data shows. The owners ...
Where foreign land ownership factors most in Iowa is in wind and solar energy production, rather than crop and livestock production. ... Canada had the largest holdings in Iowa at nearly 200,000 ...
Historically, farmland has been owned by small property owners, but as of 2017 institutional investors, including foreign corporations, had been purchasing farmland. [73] In 2013 the largest producer of pork, Smithfield Foods, was bought by a company from China. [73]
The U.S. State of Iowa currently has 31 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated seven combined statistical areas, nine metropolitan statistical areas, and 15 micropolitan statistical areas in Iowa. [1]
The 2020 Land Report 100 broke the story of Bill Gates's ownership of 242,000 acres of farmland, an amount that ranked first in the United States among private landowners. Overall, Gates ranked No. 49 on the 2020 Land Report 100.
Fewer investors appear to be buying Iowa farmland than in 2022 and 2023, said Rachelle Heller, a Hertz Real Estate Services land consultant in Washington, Iowa. Depending on local competition for ...
Iowa is the 26th largest in total area and the 31st most populous of the 50 U.S. states, with a population of 3.19 million. [9] The state's capital, most populous city, and largest metropolitan area fully located within the state is Des Moines. A portion of the larger Omaha, Nebraska, metropolitan area extends into three counties of southwest ...