Win an iPad2 for sharing your market perspective on Land from the LandThink Get Land Smart Summit - 06/28/11 11:46 PM

Take the 2011 LandThink Land Market Survey and you will be entered to win an iPad 2 and a Smart Pass to the LandThink Summit! Your participation in this survey is important to you and those who share common interests in the land real estate market. The survey takes less than 5 minutes to complete. Once completed, you will be entered to win a new Apple iPad 2 and a Smart Pass to attend the 2011 LandThink Summit on September 29th at the Gwinnett Center in Atlanta, Georgia. A $700 total value! 
The results of the survey will provide a comprehensive assessment of … (0 comments)

Emergency Loans Available for Kansas Farmers for Natural Disasters - Drought & Wildfires - 06/28/11 03:21 PM
It has been a rough year for farmers in parts of Kansas due to drought, storms, and wildfires.  
The USDA Farm Service Agency just released the following..
FSA Emergency Loans Available Because of Natural Disasters
Manhattan, Kansas, June 28, 2011 --- Adrian J. Polansky, State Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Kansas announced that FSA is making emergency loans available to help qualified producers recover from production and physical losses due to natural disasters.
Secretarial Disaster Designation S3121 for drought, excessive heat, and high winds on January 1, 2011 and continuing made the following primary counties in Kansas … (0 comments)

In Honor of Flag Week - 06/14/11 11:20 AM
Flag Day is celebrated June 14 and commerates the adoption of the flag of the United States. The week of June 14 is designated as National Flag Week and all are encouraged to fly the American flag this week.
The national flag which which we now use been effective since July 4, 1960. 

GOD BLESS AMERICA!
 
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Kansas Roadways - Ready for a Road Trip - 06/08/11 06:25 PM
Planning a road trip in Kansas this summer? Be sure to check out KanDrive for planning, travel and roadway information.
If you are headed out for a Kansas Road Trip - enjoy because Kansas has some pretty interesting things tucked away in our rural towns.  Check out the Kansas Travel website and the Rural Kansas website and enjoy the detours if there is some construction along the way....because just think...it could be worse! 

 
Photo taken from a 1929 Kansas School textbook in the Transportation chapter.  Our Government, A Textbook of Civics by Sheldon Davis and Clarence H McClure, published … (0 comments)

Land - Who am I? Under ALL is the LAND - 06/08/11 05:15 PM
This Anonymous poem about land has been posted elsewhere many times but it is a timeless piece that conveys the true value of land and it is worth another post.
 
Who Am I?
I am the basis of all wealth, the heritage of the wise, the thrifty and prudent.I am the poor person's joy and comfort, the rich person's prize, the right hand of capital, the silent partner of thousands of successful people.I am solace of the widow, the comfort of old age, the cornerstone of security against misfortune and want. I am handed down through generations, as a possession … (0 comments)

Kansas Farmland Crop Progress, Wheat Condition still poor - 06/06/11 09:42 PM
Kansas Agricultural Statistics along with the Kansas Department of Agriculture released the Crop Progress Condition Report for this week and wheat is still in very poor and poor condition even though rains blessed many parts of the state it was varied and not enough. 
Here are two charts from the report available at this link 


 
Some farmers are still optimistic if wheat prices hold at higher prices then the reduced bushels might not hurt so bad but all in all most of South West and West Central Kansas are in for a poor wheat harvest.
 
 
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Farmland Investing and Values Recap - 06/02/11 01:34 PM
Summary of recent news regarding agriculture farmland values and investing in agricultural farm land.
Challenges posed by the new wave of farmland investment - Author Klaus Deininger in the Journal of Peasant Studies.  The first sentence in the abstract sums it beautifully.... Despite recent headlines about the 'land rush', scant empirical evidence implies that the debate is often theoretical and dominated by preconceived notions.
America's Hottest Investment: Farmland from The Curious Capitalist at Time.com - Reiteration of farmland values going up 20% and interview with a farmland broker that is busy. Crop prices up, Commodities falling.  No new information here.  Maybe the take away … (0 comments)