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How Marketing Turned Two-State Farm Sale into Regional Event with Midwest Land Broker Johnny Klemme (opens the original)
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A two-state, 1,477.5-acre farm sale just closed for $22.45 million, and it wasn't luck. Geswein Farm & Land Realty's Johnny Klemme explains how branding an Illinois-Indiana portfolio as one regional event, pairing a hybrid live/online auction, and spotlighting decades of tenant stewardship drove nearly 800 bids and turned a multi-generational family farm into the sale everyone was watching.
Risk Management Firm Executive Dustin Carlson: Why 831(b) Is Getting Another Look from Farmland Owners (opens the original)
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Risk management executive Dustin Carlson says the once-controversial 831(b) tax provision is drawing fresh interest from farmland owners as uninsured risks grow and the contribution limit rises to roughly $2.9 million in 2026. Created in 1986 to help businesses fund risks the open market wouldn't cover, Carlson argues the tool is regaining relevance as insurance policies add exclusions rather than coverage.
Veteran Land Broker Lou Jewell: Wants to Help Others Learn the Land Business (opens the original)
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Lou Jewell argues land deals need a different approach than house sales, using a highest-and-best-use example to show how the same tract's value shifts depending on its use (row crops, timber, development). He also discusses the NC land disclosure form he helped develop over roughly a decade, covering gaps (boundary and mineral-rights issues) that standard residential forms miss.
Agronomy Tech CEO Kenny Avery: Section 180 Interest is Growing (opens the original)
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Kenny Avery, CEO of Advanced Agrilytics and former Monsanto executive, told American Farmland Owner that more landowners are discovering Section 180 of the tax code, which lets farmland owners deduct the value of excess residual soil fertility built up from years of fertilizer and lime applications. Advanced Agrilytics calculates the deduction field by field using soil samples compared against regional baseline fertility levels, then spreads the benefit over a four-to-five-year depletion schedul
Beekeeper Industry Leader Patty Sundberg: It’s Time for Other Ag Sectors to Help (opens the original)
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Montanabeekeeper and former American Beekeeping Federation president Patty Sundbergsays solving the beekeeping industry's colony losses, which topped 62% amongcommercial beekeepers between mid-2024 and early 2025, will require help fromthe rest of agriculture. She's calling for pollinator strips, better roadsidemanagement, and use of public lands to give bees the forage they need tosurvive.
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