Top Farmer Conference: January 10, 2025

As one of the most successful and longest-running management programs specifically crafted for farmers, the Purdue Top Farmer Conference is a one-day event for agricultural producers and agribusiness professionals looking to navigate the complexities of today's agricultural landscape. Participants will have the opportunity to network with peers and hear from farm management experts and agricultural economists from Purdue, Farm Credit Services of America, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Acres, a land value data analytics company.

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2000 Indiana Land Values Rise

The 2000 Purdue Land Values Survey indicates that the value of an acre of average bare Indiana cropland was$2,173 per acre in June 2000. This was $81 more than the value reported in June 1999, a 3.9 percent increase. This increase more than off-sets the 2.9 percent decline that was reported in 1999. Cash rents…

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1999 Indiana Land Values Decline

The 1999 Purdue Land Values Survey indicates that the value of an acre of average bare Indiana cropland was$2,092 per acre in June 1999. This was $63 less than the value reported in June 1998, a 2.9 percent decrease. This decline ends 11 consecutive years of increasing values. Cash rents declined from 1998 to 1999…

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Land Values Continue Rise

The 1998 Purdue Land Values survey indicates that the value of an acre of average bare Indiana cropland was$2,155 per acre in June 1998, $55 more than the all-time peak reached in 1981. This is an increase of $158 per acre, or approximately 8 percent, over the value reported in 1997. In each of the…

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1997 Land Values Rise Again

The Purdue Land Values survey, conducted annually for over 20 years, indicates that the value of an acre of an acre of average Indiana cropland was right at $2000 per acre in June 1997, only$100 short of the all-time peak reached in 1981. In each of the past four years, the value of this land…

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1996 Indiana Land Values Surge!

Statewide, values of average Indiana cropland increased by 14.2% in the year ending in June 1996, nearly double the 7.4% increase a year ago. According to the Purdue land values survey, this is the ninth consecutive year of increasing Indiana land values. Increases of around 35% were registered in both the first and last third…

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1995 Indiana Land Values Rise Another Seven Percent

From 1989 to 1993 the increase in average Indiana cropland values was 13% about the same as the inflation rate. Then, in the year ending in June 1994, values rose around 10%. This was followed by an increase in the value of top and average land of over 7% for the most current year ending…

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1994 Land Values Jump by 10 Percent

After four years of hardly keeping up with inflation, Indiana cropland values jumped around 10% in the year ending in June 1994 according to the Purdue land values survey. The USDA reported a 7.8% increase for the year ending January 1. Likely causes of strength in the land market include low interest rates (affecting both…

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1993 Statewide Farmland Values Continue Modest Increase

The Purdue land values survey revealed a statewide increase of 3.2% in the value of average-quality bare till-able land in the year ending in June 1992, about double the tiny increase of 1991-92. The USDA estimate for the year ending January 1 was 5%. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago survey of bankers indicated a…

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1992 Statewide Farmland Values Modestly Higher

GThe Purdue land values survey revealed a statewide increase of 1.5% in the value of average­ quality bare tillable land in the year ending in June 1992, about the same as the 2% estimate by USDA for the year ending January I. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago survey of bankers also indicated a 2%…

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Farmland Values Edge Upward

The Purdue land values survey revealed a statewide increase of about 1.8% in the value of average quality bare tillable land in the year ending in June 1991. Early this year, the USDA reported that Indiana farmland values had increased 2% in the year ending in January 1991. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago survey…

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