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12.6%
12.6% -- annualized return for farmland investment since 2000 (2026)
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12.6%
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2026
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86
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Iowa State University
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https://realtybiznews.com/big-money-grows-on-farms-investors-cash-in/98726140/ ↗
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Big Money Grows on Farms: Investors Cash In
Farmland prices continue to soar, producing fields of new multimillionaire farmers in agriculture pockets across the country, Forbes.com reports.
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Iowa is particularly seeing strong price gains. For example, a survey this spring of local farmland brokers in Iow…
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Iowa State University
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Study by Iowa State University on land values
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