Our Winter 2020 newsletter is available now. Click the link to download it: Winter 2020 ISPFMRA Newsletter Inside This Issue • Programs Fill February Meeting Calendar • ”Seth Says” -- A Message from the President • 2020 ISPFMRA Leadership Team…
Our Fall 2019 newsletter is available now. Click the link to download it: Fall 2019 ISPFMRA Newsletter
(Decatur, IL. August 28, 2019) -- "Static" is likely the best way to describe what is happening with prices being paid for Illinois farmland when comparing sales activities from January 1 through the end of July this year. This is…
by Gary Truitt (Reprinted by permission of author. See the full original commentary at Hoosier Ag Today.) The Center for Disease Control has recently identified a long-observed, but hitherto unnamed disease, Morbus Agricola. Commonly referred to as farmer disease, it…
Reprinted by permission of the Purdue University Center for Commercial Agriculture In April, the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer recorded the fourth largest one-month drop since data collection began in October 2015. The barometer, which is a sentiment index…
Illinois’ Gem City has a population of 41,000+ and is a river town, but you sure can’t call it sleepy! It is alive and well with a great deal of agriculture- based industry, and as part of the Summer Tour…
Our Spring 2019 newsletter is available now. Click the link to download it: Spring 2019 ISPFMRA Newsletter
We have many of the presentations from our annual Land Values Conference available in PDF format. 2019 Land Values and Lease Trends (David Klein) Report for Regions 1-2-3 (David Dinderman) Report for Regions 5-6 (Bruce M. Huber) Report for Regions 8-9-10 (Dale Kellermann) The…
First MidAg Services’ Ross Albert, AFM, Bloomington office, looks on as Ernest Moody, AFM, ARA, AAC, reads the inscription on the “Workhorse Award” presented to him at the annual meeting of the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural…
The new ISPFMRA leadership team was elected at the organization’s 91st Annual Meeting held February 7 in Decatur, IL. Robert Woodrow, AFM, front, center, is elected as 2019 President of the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.…