Source: Ron Smith, FARM PROGRESS, 6/8/20


Agricultural land values were holding mostly steady at the beginning of 2020 as optimism over trade deals and some glimmers of hope for commodity prices buoyed spirits. Then COVID-19 threw a wad of muck into the machinery and gummed up the works. "The land auction market absolutely changed because of the pandemic," says Randy Dickhut, AFM, senior vice president, real estate operations for Farmers National Company, Omaha, Neb.

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