The article reports on the increase of farmland values at 22% in Nebraska and 25% in Iowa according to land value surveys. With the fast-pace increase in farmland values people are raising questions about a speculative bubble with respect to farmland. Though the current supply and demand ...
After WWII, farms faced the challenge of overproduction because of the introduction of gasoline- and electric-powered machinery, and the application of chemical fertilizer and pesticides to farmland and crops. In 1954, the Food for Peace program was created to export U.S. surplus agricultural ...
In Iowa, 60 percent of forest owners were aware of the forestry incentives available under the ACP and about one-third were unaware of the property tax advantage for forest land under the Iowa Forest Preserve Law [117]. In West Virginia there was a 31 percent ACP participation rate. The ...