The value of farmland in the U.S. has been going straight since the early 1990s. A friend who bought farmland back in the early '90s told me that the value of that land has increased five-fold. This is prime Red River Valley (North Dakota) farmland. Recent trades have been in the range of $4,500-5,000 per acre. Not much land is trading, and what is being traded has been typically cash purchases. No financing; farmers have cash. We've all heard the anecdotal stories about $10,000-15,000 per acre land sales and even higher in other areas. WPI has written often about the very steep rise in land values. We've also written numerous times about the reasons for the escalating values, including:
High commodity prices; Generally very good yie...
What You Need to Know Today: Declining crop conditions ratings and shaky results from the Pro Farmer crop tour sent grains sharply higher on Tuesday. The Pro Farmer tour in Ohio pegged the state yield at 180.18 BPA, about 5.5 BPA below the tour’s 2025 estimate. Similarly, the Pro Farmer...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt is the largest importer of Brazilian maize in the first six months of 2026. Egypt imported about 28.4 percent of maize exports, or about 1.7 million MT. Iran was the third-largest importer at 14.5 percent, or 900,000 MT, fol...
Based on a Depression-era statute, President Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of exports to the U.S., or about 5.2 percent of the $383 billion worth of goods the U.S. imported from Canada in 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Of that total, about $39.3 billion was agricu...
