The value of land dominates the financial structure of most American agriculturalproduction firms, and land values are an important factor in long-term agricultural planning andrisk management. As the primary source of collateral for farm loans, farmland values havesignificant implications for both producers as well as bankers financing agricultural loans. TheFederal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s Survey of Agricultural Credit Conditions is an expertopinion survey in which agricultural bankers provide land value forecasts.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2010
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2010Latvia
Implementing the land reform, territories of farms were quite often formed of several - up to 20 - land plots, frequently with disadvantageous borders. With reorganization of production of the farms, rural development and activities of land market, importance and tasks of rational territory organization will grow. Besides, it can be forecasted that, as a result of land rent and further buy-sell and other transactions, many new farmland properties and land uses are going to appear which might not correspond to the requirements of rational territory organization.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsJanuary, 2010
Farmland and capital are an important and rapidly expanding component of the agriculturaleconomy, and empirical evidence suggests that these assets are quasi-fixed in that adjustment costs are incurred when holdings are altered. Increased interest in the rate of return for investing in farmland suggests that an important consideration is the effect of adjustment costs on this return.
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