According the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, the value of non-irrigated cropland in the central Plains region of the U.S. increased by up to 28 percent in the third quarter of this year, compared to the same period in 2020. For more on the reasons behind this and the outlook for land values in 2022, Jim Jansen, an agricultural economist at UNL, joins the podcast. He is a co-author of the annual Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Report, which publishes data on average land values and cash rental rates by region throughout the state, and he has co-written a new article on our website – cap.unl.edu – about the Fed’s third quarter findings.

Read more at https://cap.unl.edu/land/nonirrigated-cropland-values-reflect-strength-commodity-markets-2021.