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Land values holding steady as water increasingly affecting prices

Despite falling crop prices most farmland values are holding steady and one expert notes the need for water, David Murray writes. Read More

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)
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Hit-and-miss rain story late of late summer

The center pivot irrigation system at the Oklahoma State University McCaull Research and Demonstration Farm will be one of the topics discussed at this year’s Panhandle Crops & Forages Field Day in Eva. The Aug. 31 event kicks off the fall field day events with topics like sorghum varieties, nitrogen management, soil moisture monitoring and managing spider mites in corn. (Photo by Todd Johnson, OSU Agriculture.)
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Agriculture land market remains resilient amid economic uncertainty



Landlords and tenants need to have a realistic view of crop prices and input expenses based on a three- to- five-year projection on farm income. (Journal photo by Dave Bergmeier.)

In current economic time landlords, tenants need to be realistic

  • April 30, 2025
  • By Dave Bergmeier
A contractor hired by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission uses a helicopter to apply herbicide to phragmites, an invasive, noxious weed, at Niobrara Confluence Wildlife Management Area on the Missouri River near the village of Niobrara. Also known as common reed, phragmites is choking out native vegetation, reducing the amount of wildlife habitat available on the Missouri, Platte and other rivers, reservoirs and wetlands throughout the state. It is also an Aquatic Invasive Species. (Photo by Eric Fowler, for NEBRASKAland Magazine, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.)

Is latest WOTUS revision the final chapter?

  • March 21, 2025
  • By David Murray
Summer landscape with green grass field and blue sky

Rural land values holding steady

  • November 18, 2024
  • By David Murray
Grain bins (Photo: Rachel Regier, Ashland, KS)

U.S. agricultural land is attractive around the world

  • November 15, 2024
  • By Ken Eriksen
Fed 'n Happy. (Courtesy photo.)

A biological farming solution

  • June 15, 2024
  • By HPJ Staff
The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Rain found its way into drought-affected areas

  • May 23, 2024
  • By David Simeral

High Plains cropland values—a pause in the working?

  • April 26, 2024
  • By Ken Eriksen
Dusty Hininger, sales training manager at Firestone Ag, says proper inflation and ballast on farm equipment can save farmers money on fuel and productivity. (Photo by Bill Spiegel.)

Save time and money with optimum tractor tire pressure

  • April 12, 2024
  • By Bill Spiegel
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