DEVILS LAKE, N.D. - Willie Huot has spent years helping farmers and landlords develop farmland rental agreements and he’s reached this conclusion: “What you come up with has to benefit both parties.

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Farmers may be preparing to operate on a net loss in 2025 with major commodities like corn, soybeans and wheat expected to sell for less than the inputs it takes to grow them. For ...

Land lease terminations on Sept. 1 initiated by the farmer/operator are becoming more common. For many producers, cash rents have been very slow to adjust in comparison to some of the other inputs ...

Farmers riding the wave of higher commodity prices in 2022 are likely to deal with increased competition for land in 2023. It’s evident in the record-high sale prices being reported across the Midwest ...

Commodity prices have been seesawing since February, in part because of the Russia-Ukraine war. Food prices have been the worst affected so far, with average grocery prices up 12.2% year-over-year ...

WASHINGTON — Farmland values continue to rise but show signs of cooling off compared to increases in recent years. The farm real estate value, a measurement of the value of all land and buildings on ...

After years of big annual increases, farmland rental rates appear to be stabilizing. Farmers and landlords across the Upper Midwest are just beginning to renegotiate farmland rental agreements that ...

AMES, Iowa — Rental rates for Iowa farmland decreased by 5 percent in 2015, according to results from the Cash Rental Rates for Iowa conducted by Extension. This is the second consecutive year of ...

MASON CITY — Cash rental rates for Iowa farmland have soared with the sharply higher corn and soybean prices that producers have seen since last fall. The average cash rent for corn and soybean land ...

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. -- Determining farmland rental rates can be challenging, but knowing the land's productivity and utilizing two electronic tools can make the job a little easier, a North Dakota State ...