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Click on the link to read an article in AG Professional “U.S. and Foreign Land Investment”, which quotes HFMS President, Howard Halderman.

Neal and Lydia Wolheter were recently featured in an article in the The Farmer’s Exchange. Please click this link to read the whole article in The Farmer’s Exchange. Neal Wolheter is a Halderman Real Estate Associate. Congratulations to Neal and Lydia.

Join Executive Editor Marcia Zarley Taylor, of DTN, and other guest speakers for a discussion of institutional farm land investment in the United States and in South America. Panelists will address the barriers and opportunities for pension funds and other institutional ownership of farmland in the U.S., and provide details on new foreign land ownership regulations in Brazil. Howard Halderman, President of Halderman Farm Management, is a guest on the webinar.

To watch DTN’s webinar, please click here.

Article by Michael Duffy for Choices Magazine.

Farmland values are increasing at rates not seen since the 1970s. Two recent land value surveys reported a 22% increase in Nebraska from February 2010 to February 2011, and prices up 25% in Iowa from March 2010 to March 2011. (Johnson, Wilson, and Van Newkirk, 2011; Iowa Farm and Land, Chapter 2, 2011) Other surveys have reported double digit increases in farmland values throughout the Midwest and Great Plains states. (Federal Reserve Bank; Schnitkey, 2011)

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Farmland is a critical asset in the agricultural sector, comprising 85% of the assets in production agriculture. Soaring farmland values have generated considerable national news attention and given rise to questions about the factors driving farmland values higher and whether current farmland values are reasonable. Many in the agricultural sector are worried that the farm sector is headed for a repeat of the farmland value bubble that collapsed in the 1980s. From an economic perspective, the first of the above questions has a relatively straight-forward answer. The second question regarding the “reasonableness” of land values is much more difficult to answer.

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Article by Howard Halderman, President of Halderman Farm Management, in Ag Professional, the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers publication.

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THE GARARD AUCTION HAS BEEN POSTPONED. PLEASE CALL 1-800-424-2324 IF YOU HAVE INTEREST IN THIS PROPERTY.

Dave Bonnell, Halderman Representative from Columbus, was selected as a winner in America’s Farmers Grow Communities SM Program, which gives farmers $2,500 to donate to their favorite local nonprofit organizations.

Bonnell decided to award money to the Bartholomew County 4-H Fair Board in Columbus. He designated the money to be used for new livestock pens in the livestock barn.

The donations are funded through the Monsanto Fund.

According to a press release, America’s Farmers Grow Communities is part of a broad commitment by the Monsanto Fund to highlight the important contributions farmers make every day to our society by helping them grow their local communities. To date, more than 60,000 farmers have participated in the program. The Monsanto Fund expects to invest more than $3 million.
For more information, visit Monsato’s web site: growcommunities.com.

Article courtesy of The Republic in Columbus. 

http://www.therepublic.com/view/local_story/County_farmer_wins_2_500_for_f_1297873330/

In September, Dean Retherford and David Martin, area managers for the Halderman Companies, attended the 2010 American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers Leadership Institute (LI) in Washington DC. Retherford and Martin are both members of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA). To read more about the Leadership Institute and see photos, please click on the link to the ASFMRA publication, Legislative Action News.

Auction Results from 9/8/2010: sold in one tract for $642,000. 108.08 acres located in Washington Township of Clinton County, IN. For more info, click on the link to the property page at: http://www.halderman.com/real-estate/view-farm.php?id=9f78eacf-333a-928b-4d52-4c3dcdd3a6f8 .
Auction Results from 9/9/2010: sold in one tract for $540,000. 140.75 acres located in Fairmount Township of Grant County, IN. For more info, visit the property page at: http://www.halderman.com/real-estate/view-farm.php?id=6971f667-0881-b7f6-a965-4c41da4e2390.