Source: Sara Schafer, AGWEB, 5/8/20


The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is causing market volatility across the globe. How will that trickle down to the farmland markets? Will the uncertainty cause sellers to forgo sales? Or, will sellers opt to offer land to the market to improve their financial standing? To find clues for what lies ahead, R.D. Schrader, president of Schrader Real Estate and Auction Company, suggests looking back first. Ahead of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., he says farmland values were showing strength.

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