Betting the farm
by Ted Carter
Published: March 20,2011
Tags: John Michael Riley, MBJ FEATURE, U.S. Department of Agriculture
While the escalation in farmland values in the Midwest has gained national attention, Mississippi agricultural land has had a less-noticed run-up of its own. From 2009 through 2010, Mississippi’s cropland rose 5 percent in value, keeping pace with Missouri and Kansas and outpacing Illinois (3.2 percent) and Iowa (1.2 percent), the U.S. Department of Agriculture [...]
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