The US is a major international producer and exporter of tree nuts. In this first of a multi-part series, we will contrast and compare Almond, Pistachio, Hazelnut, and Walnut costs and cash returns, historical production and export data.
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Appreciation rates as reported by NCRIEF Annualized Quarterly data show a Year-on-Year increase of 0.6% for annual cropland. Meaning that while the average value of U.S. row cropland is still appreciating in value, it is doing so at an ever-slower rate since 2022.
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The Purdue/CME ag economy barometer is used to measure the health of the U.S. agricultural economy through a nationwide monthly survey of the sentiment of agricultural producers and agribusiness leaders. It will be interesting to see if the positive outlook reflected in the Current and Future Expectations remain following the recent USDA harvest yield and acreage report, which forecast record yields and the largest ever corn crop.
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The USDA tracks prices received and paid by farmers in the Agricultural Prices Report, an index utilizing 2011 as a baseline. Since January 2025 we have seen a steady increase in prices paid for input costs, with the June All Items index 10 points higher than the previous year.
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This is the first post in a series of four production agricultural economics updates and outlooks, beginning here with current and USDA forecast crop prices. This will be followed by crop input prices, farmer sentiment outlook, and farmland prices.
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Last week, after wrapping up a series of meetings, I departed from the Yuma Arizona Regional Airport in my trusty Cessna P210 with a clear sky and a full agenda ahead. But shortly after takeoff, a warning light forced me to turn back.
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Coming out of our 2nd Trimester Strategy and Execution Planning meeting—where we lived, worked, and recreated together as a team—I found myself deeply moved, surrounded by a gritty yet respectful group who over the course of a week of intense meetings remained collaborative and energetic, passionate and motivated. The experience reminded me just how Elite this team is.
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The Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) proposes expanding the ESPA to include five tributary basins, aiming for fairer water management and increased accountability amid ongoing aquifer decline and water rights disputes.
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While farmland is often shown and thought of as both a good hedge against inflation and often lower risk than stocks, that data usually of returns of US farmland as a whole. If your farmland holdings are all within one region, you may have a higher risk/return profile than you might believe.
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A regional exception to a positive rowcrop farmland appreciation rate in 2024 is the Cornbelt, which finished 2024 with a slight loss of year-on-year value of -0.5%. Is this a forebearer of corrective negatives in other regions?
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NCREIF US Row Crop 2024 CAP rates were 3.0%, down from a recent peak of 3.7% in 2022 and continuing a long-term compression trend.
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NCREIF US Row Crop Farmland values increased by 2.6% year over year (red line in the nearby chart, continuing a downward trend since peaking at about 10% in 2022
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Scythe & Spade Welcomes Lyn Wolff as Transaction Analyst
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After months of closed-door conversations between Idaho’s Surface Water Coalition (SWC), Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer (ESPA) groundwater district representatives, the Idaho Department of Water Resources, and the state’s own Lt. governor- a new water mitigation plan has been finalized.
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While doing some work for a client recently, we pulled together several charts that have very similar patterns: Net Cash Farm Income, the rolling nearby corn futures price, and the NCREIF US Rowcrop Farmland Appreciation rate. What they tell us is that low corn prices have a surprising effect, well outside of the corn belt.
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There are at least 6 things that can increase, or decrease, our supply of a commodity. Here we look at each one of these factors in turn to better understand the production of peanuts.
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In this second installment of our analysis on the peanut production industry in the US we will be looking into peanut demand both domestically, and around the world.
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For the second crop in our series of deep dives into specialty crops, we take a look at peanut production in the Southeastern and Southern Plains in the US.
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Earlier this year, the National Association of Realtors reached a landmark legal settlement. “Two main changes are happening now. First, listings in local databases called multiple-listing services will no longer show whether a seller is offering to pay a buyer’s agent, or how much. Second, buyers will be required to sign agreements specifying how much their agents will be paid.
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There has been a great deal of controversy about foreign ownership and investment in US Agricultural Land over the last few years, stirring up fears of foreign control of the very land that feeds us. But what are the real figures? In which states is it most prevalent and what is the status of foreign ownership restrictions in each state? Here we take a deep dive into the real numbers to provide some context
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