date:Oct 10, 2012
.8% increase during the spring months, gives a statewide average increase of 18.5% for the year, says Cannon Clark, business development specialist with Peoples Company, a land brokerage firm based in West Des Moines, Iowa. The statewide average for high quality crop land is now $10,445 per acre, the highest it has ever been since the survey was begun in 1987.
Though the numbers are still trending higher, Clark says a few variables are starting to slow the rise in values. The recent survey cond