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The Missouri Barn Is Disappearing As Farmland Prices Soar The Missouri Barn Is Disappearing As Farmland Prices Soar Originally Appeared On:"pitch.com" By Jonathan Bender Feb 21,2012 While the market suggests it's a great time to own farmland in Missouri, fate and the elements have not been so kind to the ancient barns that dot that same land. Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City announced that farmland prices in parts of seven central states (Kansas and western Missouri included) rose 25 percent in 2011. That news comes in the wake of a movement in Missouri to save the family barn — the Associated Press had a story yesterday on the creation of the Missouri Barn Alliance and Rural Network, an organization dedicated to surveying and, in some cases, repurposing historical barns. According to the findings of a 2007 U.S. Department of Agriculture census, Missouri had more than 36,000 barns built before 1960 — the second-highest number in the nation behind Texas. The surprising number and the dilapidated condition of many of those barns led to the creation of the MBARN. In 2011, the group set out to photograph the barns as part of the first step in validating their historical significance. But Missouri's barn enthusiasts might take heart in who is buying farmland in the state. The Associated Press noted that "absentee owners" are the ones "cashing in on [the] agricultural boom." They're being replaced by farmers, who are working the land. And some of them might just see the value in saving a piece of farming history.
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Buying and selling of agricultural land can be very complex. To help you tackle the issues surrounding agricultural land transactions, Farms.com Real Estate has compiled a list of experts in the areas of agricultural economics and land values.

University of Illinois

Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Extension Specialist, Farm Management
Gary Schnitkey
schnitke@uiuc.edu

Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Extension Specialist, Farm Management
Dale Lattz
d-lattz@uiuc.edu

Iowa State University

Michael Duffy
mduffy@iastate.edu
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/faculty/duffy/landnew.html

Kansas State University

Kevin Dhuyvetter
Professor and Extension Specialist, Farm Management
kcd@ksu.edu

Terry Kastens
Professor and Extension Specialist, Farm Management
tkastens@agecon.ksu.edu

Michigan State University

Stephen Harsh
Professor and Extension Specialist in Agricultural Economics
harsh@msu.edu

Eric Wittenberg
Outreach Specialist
wittenbe@msu.edu

University of Minnesota

Philip Raup
Professor Emeritus
praup@umn.edu

David Bau
Agricultural Business Management, Agricultural Business Management
bauxx003@umn.edu


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