Blogs by Mollie Aronowitz, AFM
February 22, 2016
Coming Home to Roost: Landowners Seeing Downward Pressure on 2016 Rent Rate
As the 2016 growing season quickly approaches, landowners and farm operators are in the thick of cash rent negotiations. Landowners have been in control of setting cash rent rates for several years as commodity prices soared and competition to gain new acres increased.Â
December 16, 2015
CRP Turns 30!
Beginning December 1, the next general Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) runs through February 26. This year...
December 3, 2015
USDA Payments for 2014 Crop Year Released
Earlier this month, 2014 safety-net payments for the 2014 crop year were announced by USDA’s Farm Service...
November 3, 2015
2016 Iowa Farmland Rental Rates: What Should I Charge?
A year ago, I made the argument in a blog post that 2015 rent reductions may have merit. This was certainly a turning...
May 13, 2015
In the Tallgrass: Practicing What We Preach
Over the past two years, Peoples Company has taken a hard look at the water quality issues outlined in the Iowa...
November 13, 2014
2015 Farmland Rental Rates: What Should I Charge?
Click here for a new post with information on 2016 farmland rental rates.There has been a lot of chatter in the past...
