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DEAR GUEST,

Thank you for your interest in our newsletters. The older newsletters you see below are not due to website neglect.

The content is just as applicable today as it was when the newsletter was written.

I still have an opinion on every subject and, I still think everybody is entitled to my opinion.

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Advice and Insights

Let us help you determine if a sealed bid auction is the right approach. And then let us help you maximize the effectiveness of the process.


Benchmark Agribusiness isn’t the only real estate office using this method to best serve their clients. Why?


Artificial Intelligence is

Just the Beginning

The buzzwords over the last couple years have been artificial intelligence or AI. The farm real estate industry has been using a basic version of AI for many years, too.

Is your brain spinning with an idea of selling some farmland before the end of the year? It needs to do more than spin if you want that check in hand before Father Time rings the bell on December 31!

It’s the time of year when tenants on farmland leases in Iowa need to be notified if the lease agreement is going to change for the following growing season. Iowa has a unique process for terminating a lease.

When the End Goal Isn’t

Just the Bottom Dollar

Facilitating sales that fit individual farm families sometimes means digging deeper to find out what the client truly values—and it may not be just the highest bid.


Trying to go it alone when buying and selling farmland may not be the bargain you think.

​ Learn how professional appraisals can actually save you money in the end.


Agland Prices &

the "Greder Curve"

Whether you are buying or selling farmland in North Iowa, be aware of this tendency I’ve observed in land prices over 50 years in the farm appraisal and financing field.

Are you buying on optimism?

Don't Bank on

New Buildings

Before building that new shed, get a professional appraiser’s take on the impact new buildings do and don’t have on a farm’s resale value in North Iowa.



Opportunity is

Blowing in the Wind

Understand how wind turbine sites—and the age of the turbines—factor into farmland values and income potential in North Iowa.


CSR2: Soil, Risk

and the Big Picture

Corn suitability ratings (CSR2) are one way of measuring value—in terms of crop risk—on Iowa’s farmland.

A professional appraisal can help you make sense of the details and apply them to your purchase decisions.


Don’t fall for these BS phrases. Whether you are buying or selling, check what you’re being told against the BINGO card, then get straight talk on the ag farmland market in North Iowa.

Download to see if you are a winner.