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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.

Halderman Auction Results and Upcoming Auctions

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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.

Howard Halderman, President of Halderman Farm Management & Real Estate, is featured in this article by Michele F. Mihaljevich from FarmWorld on February 23, 2011.

Click here for a link to the article on FarmWorld’s web site.

March 8 – It was a standing room only crowd at the Allin Township Community building in Stanford, IL Tuesday night a bidders lined up for a chance at the Nafzinger Family Farm. Two bidders came out successful with the bids totaling $1,345,000. Tract #1 topped the sale with 36.49 acres of quality farmland ringing in at $11,519 per acre.
The auction is believed to be a record high for McLean County, Illinois and as such drew the attention of the local media you can read the article or watch a short video at the links below.
Bloomington Pantograph Article
Auction Video Highlight

The Halderman Auction for today, Feb. 25 at 2 pm, is still on as scheduled.