We will be selling this 196.5 acres of good high quality productive tillable Iowa farmland at auction on March 3rd at Knoxville Iowa.  A great farm with some good outbuildings and lots of good productive dirt.  A great first farm with lots of possibilities or additional acreage for your operation.  The farm is available to the [...] More Info...  

We will be offering this highly productive, high CSR 191 acres m/l of Iowa Farmland at public auction on February 25.  The farm will be offered as one tract and is almost all farmland.  The seller will retain the hunting rights for a 20 year period when the rights will rejoin with the property.  Look [...] More Info...  

For those of you that are deer hunters and run trail cameras you know the excitement of a complete surprise.   I don’t know anybody that doesn’t pull trail camera cards and run home with a pocket full of hot cards hoping there is some new surprise on them.  In Iowa I love the late muzzleloader [...] More Info...  

For those deer hunters that read my blog you know the lure of the almighty antler can be just as strong in the Spring as it is in the fall.  Our hobby, our tradition, sport, lifestyle whatever you want to call it has become antler obsessed and whats better that going hunting with the opportunity [...] More Info...  

Gordon Ommen Principal Caplitaline Advisors talks with CNN Money about his farmland investing strategy and being an economic buyer of farmland, in other words, a non farming investor that will own the land for its rental income.  Iowa farmland has been in the news quite a bit lately but this segment shows how some investors evaluate [...] More Info...  

I just finished reading an article out of Carroll Iowa today that I wanted to pass along about the question of an Iowa Farmland Bubble.  Mulhlbauer says farmland “bubble” primed to burst The headline was a little misleading once you read the article, I suppose you could argue the headline is accurate if you wanted to [...] More Info...  

CRI Weekly news discusses Iowa land prices in general and visits Mahaska County in southeast Iowa to talk with Darrell Limkeman of Mid States Farm Management. This was an interesting what because they actually showed the bottom end, land listed for $2500 an acre which has been a change from the sensational media we’ve seen about Iowa [...] More Info...  

  As DreamDirt grows we are looking for quality people to add to our creative team!  We are currently interviewing potential “Farmographers” who may be interested in joining our team in all corners of the state of Iowa.  What is a “Farmographer”  Well, that takes a little explaining! A DreamDirt Farmographer is a talented, creative, [...] More Info...  

I’ve been visiting with several production companies from Los Angles that have contacted me about the potential to film several different reality TV shows about auctions in Iowa.   One of those production compaies will be coming to Iowa next week to meet with me and have asked me to “put feelers out” looking for potential [...] More Info...  

James McCandless, the UBS Agrivest Managing Director appears on Fox Business to discuss farmland’s growing value and farmland investing as well as its correlation with inflation. Related Posts on DreamDirt TV: The Iowa Farmland Bubble “Primed to Burst” Comparative Slides For Iowa Land Prices 2010-2011 Hard Assets- Farmland Investing Perry Vieth on Bloomberg Fields Of [...] More Info...  

Banking and financial crises are a regular part of American history. We have weathered them successfully many times since the Civil War. Somehow, our government has become convinced that America is no longer strong enough to overcome a banking crisis. … Continue reading → More Info...  

I’ve been reading about the economic history of our relationship with Japan for the past year. And I’ve just finished the article that will come out in our magazine Tierra Grande in April 2012. In previous blogs and speeches, I … Continue reading → More Info...  

It appears Europe has just about run out of magic tricks to postpone the inevitable. As I mentioned in a previous blog about Greece, now all of Europe has reached the event horizon and entered the endgame. Two choices remain. … Continue reading → More Info...  

The Federal Reserve has dropped interest rates to near zero for short-term investments. They have done this in an attempt to spur job growth and reduce the unemployment rate in America. Recently, they announced Operation Twist designed to bring down … Continue reading → More Info...  

I recently gave a speech at a two-day conference in Dallas. The event was the Texas Bank and Financial Institutions Special Asset Executive Conference on Real Estate Workouts. The central focus of the event was how banks and CMBS (commercial … Continue reading → More Info...