U.S. Farmland Bucks The Real Estate Downtrend

Farmland prices in the Midwest, the nation’s breadbasket, jumped 20 percent just in the third quarter from a year earlier—bucking a downturn in the residential real estate market, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the National Association of Realtors. That was the 11th consecutive quarter of gains, the longest streak since 2014. Read Full Article »