Something real, or is it a bubble?
by Ted Carter
Published: March 20,2011
Tags: Don Respess, John Michael Riley, Ken Hobart, MBJ FEATURE, Stacy Gillison, Thomas Hoenig
Higher crop prices and steady increases in land rents and values have Mississippi farm owners believing their fortunes have turned. But recollections of the cropland boom and bust of the 1980s keep their enthusiasm in check. For one Washington County farmer who works several thousand acres, the new prosperity is a mere offset to the [...]
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