Renegotiating expired farmland rental rate agreements - a process now underway across the Upper Midwest - can be one of the toughest jobs in agriculture. Farmers and landlords often have differing ...

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 ...

It can be hard to reach a land rental agreement in a normal year. With fluctuating costs and unknowns, it will be even more ...

As many farmers and their landlords renegotiate rental agreements that expired after the 2018 crop season, this generalization about farmland rental rates appears sound: “In places with good (2018) ...

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 ...

Landlords, farmers, agribusiness professionals should make plans to attend one of the informative land rental meetings taking place across central and southern Minnesota. These free meetings are being ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nine percent of all Midwest farmland will transfer ownership in the next five years, according to a USDA report released last week. And rented farmland will transfer at an even ...

First incorporated into a farm bill in 1985, the conservation title is what some would consider the original Green New Deal. Its voluntary conservation initiatives give farmers and ranchers ...

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 ...