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Here’s a listing of the agenda:

Property Manager – Farm and Ranch (Springfiield, IL)

Contact:
Jill Minden
Administrator, Human Resources
Cassidy Turley
1034 S. Brentwood Blvd., Suite 800
St. Louis, MO 63117

This one-day seminar is intended to reinforce the concepts of the Income Approach and its application to the overall appraisal process. The seminar introduces improved techniques for estimating the value of income-producing rural property by converting anticipated benefits into property value. The seminar is intended to not only review the various formulas and procedures utilized for deriving various rates of return, but also to develop an understanding of the inter-workings of these derived rates such that the appraiser can more accurately interpret market movements.

Required Equipment: HP-12C (or equivalent) calculator or smartphone app.

This course qualifies for 8 hours of continuing education for appraisers with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation’s Appraisal Division (applied for) and the ASFMRA.

Instructor: LeeAnn Moss, Ph.D., ARA, ALC The Loranda Group, Inc., Bloomington, IL

Fees: $150.00 for ASFMRA Members, $175.00 for non-Members (Does NOT include lunch)

(Add $35 for registration received after August 2.)

Download the registration form here: Income Approach Applications August 2013.pdf

A few highlights:

Grain Prices
Mother Nature slashed corn and soybean yields in 2012 which resulted in skyrocketing grain prices. $7.00 to $8.00 per bushel corn and $15.00 to $18.00 per bushel soybeans were significant and offset much of the yield drop.

Net Farm Income
Farmland truly is what it earns! Net farm income across Illinois was stable to increasing this past year due to higher commodity prices and the payouts from crop insurance programs.

Drought Conditions
The Great Drought of 2012 resulted in some of the largest corn and soybean yield reductions our members had ever witnessed. On an average corn yields were down nearly 50% and soybeans were reduced by one- third.

2013 Illinois Farmland Values Lease Trends – Full Presentation (PDF Format)

2013 Illinois Farmland Values Lease Trends – Full Presentation (Powerpoint Format)

Note: There is a correction to one of the tables in the report.  This is for Region 5, on page 43. You can download the corrected table here: Region 5 Sticker Cover.pdf. 

Lee Waters – Crop Insurance 101

Scott Irwin – The Impact of Biofuels Mandates on Grain and Oilseed Markets

Stephen Frerichs – Legislative Update

IL-FarmManagers.ppt

Toying with Technology

Agriculture Economic Drivers in 2013 and Beyond

Nick Paulson – The 2013 Farm Bill

2013 Illinois Farmland Values Lease Trends

Order Form.pdf

Note: There is a correction to one of the tables in the report.  This is for Region 5, on page 43. You can download the corrected table here: Region 5 Sticker Cover.pdf. 

The 2013 Illinois Land Values Conference is coming up quickly! It will be held March 13-14 at the Parke Hotel and Conference Center in Bloomington. The March 14 activities will be open to the public.

(Pre-order a copy of the 2013 Statewide Land Values Report here.)

“The conference will be an all-morning event and will be packed with useful information for Illinois farmers and landowners,” says Dale Aupperle, AFM, ARA, overall chairman of the event. “We are focusing on statewide land values, current leasing trends, and the many global influences in today’s agriculture.”

“These are truly golden years for all of us in agriculture!” Aupperle says. “Farmland values have extended their double digit annual increase through 2012! Our prime farmland is approaching $13,000 per acre, on average, up from $10,500 a year ago. And the rising tide is floating all boats as every class of Illinois farmland increased in value during the past year.

“With that in mind, the program committee has put together a great roster of speakers and subjects that should have broad appeal for anyone who has an interest in buying, selling, or renting Illinois farmland.”he continues.

The program will open with a review on the status of the Farm Bill, presented by Nicholas Paulson, assistant professor at the University of Illinois College of ACES. That will be followed by a look at the world agricultural economy and how it is affecting commodity prices and the trickle-down to land values. This will be presented by Steve Elemore, Global Economics Director with Dupont Pioneer.

“Our real keynote for the morning will be John Blanchfield, from the American Bankers Association,” Aupperle notes. “John is senior vice president of the ABA Center for Agriculture and Rural Banking and will be talking about the availability of money in rural America. He will also give us an overview into the goings-on in Washington, D.C.”

The last element of the half-day program will be the release of the 2013 Land Values and Lease Trends Survey results, which will be covered by Aupperle and Gary Schnitkey, Ph.D., with the University of Illinois College of ACES. “We have been doing this survey for many years and this will be the 2013 edition,” Aupperle notes. “Everyone attending will receive a complimentary copy of the Land Values and Lease Trends Report.” Valued at $15.00, the report this year is 100 pages in size, the largest ever, he explains.

Registration for attending the event is $65 which is payable at the door (free to working media).

Here’s a list of session information, but for a registration form, you’ll want to download the Conference Agenda.

Wednesday, March 13

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Cost Approach Applications
This 1-day seminar sets forth up-to-date techniques for establishing market value by estimating the current cost to reproduce or replace the existing structure. Students will
learn how to measure depreciation from market data, when use of cost approach is most and least applicable and how to establish value when using this approach. Discussion will cover physical curable, physical incurable short-lived, physical incurable long lived, functional curable, functional incurable and accrued depreciation.
• 8 hours
• Required Equipment: HP-12c, HP-17bII or HP-19bII calculator
• Instructor: LeeAnn Moss, Ph.D., ALC, ARA

9:00 a.m. – Noon
COR 1650– CORE A: AGENCY & ESCROW: Will the Defendant Please Rise?
Join us as we explore agency’s fine points – duties to clients – responsibilities to customers – when to do dual agency (when not to!) as well as look at escrow case studies – all with an emphasis on risk reduction.
• 3 hours, Number 564001717
• Instructor: Norm Willoughby
• License # 563-000113

Noon Luncheon for all registrants

1:00 – 4:00 p.m. COR 1649 — CORE B: Legal Issues: Anti-trust & Fair Housing – Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come for You?
It’s not always what you say that causes you problems – it’s how you say it. Through video examples of what to do – and what not to do – we’ll look at two of the areas of real estate that can cause them to come for you – when you thought you were one of the good guys!
•3 hours, Number 564001715
•Instructor: Norm Willoughby
•License # 563-000113
Note: Core A and Core B courses are sponsored by the Illinois Association of REALTORS® in conjunction with the Decatur Association of REALTORS® and RLI.

4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Wine/Cheese Reception (included with all registrations)

Thursday, March 14

7:00 a.m. Registration / Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m. Welcome — Tim Harris, AFM, Capital Agricultural Property Services Winnie Stortzum, ARA, Farmers National Company

8:15 a.m. The Farm Bill — In Limbo? –– Nicholas D. Paulson, Assistant Professor University of Illinois College of ACES

9:00 a.m. A Look at the World’s Ag Economy –– Steve Elmore, Global Economics Director, DuPont Pioneer

10:00 a.m. Break

10:20 a.m. There’s Money Out There in Rural America (and a peek inside Washington, D.C.)
John M. Blanchfield, Senior Vice President, ABA Center for Agricultural and Rural Banking

11:15 a.m. 2013 Illinois Land Values and Lease Trends Report — Dale Aupperle, AFM, ARA, Heartland Ag Group, Ltd.; Gary Schnitkey, Ph.D., University of Illinois

Noon Adjournment

Here’s the takeaway nugget: “The more that we can be transparent and give them the visuals of what (farmers) do every single day on the farm, it really does give that confidence to the consumer that we’re doing the right thing and that we care.”

You can hear an interview on the subject here.

The survey was conducted among membership of the Society with tabulation and results summarized by Gary Schnitkey, Ph.D., a professor and farm management specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois. “The Society conducts a survey half way through the year to evaluate trends in farmland prices and cash rents. This information supplements the Society’s larger efforts at year-end to docu- ment farmland prices and cash rents across Illinois. The 2012 mid-year survey also focused on the droughts impacts on farmland prices and cash rents.”

“Overall, land values increased by 5 percent during the first half of 2012,” says Don McCabe, AFM, chairman of the Society’s Illinois Land Values project and president at Soy Capital Ag Services, Bourbonnais, IL “This is less than the double-digit increases we’ve seen the past few years.”

“On July 1, 2012, farmland prices averaged $11,200 for excellent quality farmland, $9,200 for good quality farm- land, $7,800 for average quality farmland, and $5,900 for fair quality farmland. A year ago the 2011 Mid-Year survey indicated the value of the best quality land surpassed $10,000 for the first time,” McCabe explains

In a normal year, excellent quality farmland averages over 190 bushels of corn per acre, good quality farmland averages between 170 and 190 bushels per acre, average quality farmland averages between 150 and 170 bushels per acre, and fair quality farmland averages below 150 bushels per acre. “Yields will be below these averages in 2012,” Schnitkey says. Respondents indicated that 2012 corn yields will be 44 percent lower than expected. Soy- bean yields in 2012 will be 30 percent lower than expected.

McCabe also noted that the volume of farmland being sold during the first half of this year was down slightly when compared to a year ago. “Most survey respondents expect the volume of sales to be at last year’s level or greater during the second half of the year,” he explained. Forty percent expect higher sales volume while 42 per- cent expect the same volume.

Below are the key points from the survey:

Farmland Prices

1. Respondents indicate that land values increased by 5 percent during the first half of 2012.

2. Most respondents expect farmland prices to increase over the next 12 months: 12 percent expect farmland prices to increase more than 5 percent and 52 percent expect increases between 0 and 5 percent, meaning that 64 percent expect price increases. Twenty-four percent of the respondents expect stable prices while 12 percent expect price declines of between 0 and 5 percent. Compared to the 2011 midyear survey, respondents are some-

what less optimistic. In 2011, 81 percent of respondents expected increases compared to 64 percent this year.

3. Most respondents expect corn prices to average between $7 and $8 per bushel for the 2012 crop. Twenty-eight percent expect prices over $8 per bushel while 63 percent expect average prices between $7 and $8. Nine percent expect prices between below $6.

4. For soybeans, 49 percent of the respondents expect prices between $15 and $16 per bushel. Sixteen percent expect prices above $16. Twenty-one percent expect prices between $14 and $15 and 14 percent expect prices below $14.

2012 and Projected 2013 Cash Rents

5. Respondents expect 2013 rents to average slightly higher than 2012 levels: a. Excellent quality farmland: Respondents indicated that average cash rent in 2012 was $373 per acre

and expect 2013 rents to average $384 per acre, an $11 per acre increase. In 2011, respondents expected a $38 per acre increase from 2011 to 2012.

b. Good quality farmland: Respondents indicated that average cash rent in 2012 was $317 per acre and expect 2012 rents to average $326 per acre, a $9 per acre increase. In 2011, respondents expected a $36 per acre increase from 2011 to 2012.

c. Average quality farmland: Respondents indicated that average cash rent in 2012 was $268 per acre and expect 2013 rents to average $272 per acre, a $4 per acre increase. In 2011, respondents expected a $28 per acre increase from 2011 to 2012.

d. Fair quality farmland: Respondents indicated that average cash rent in 2011 was $212 per acre and expect 2013 rents to average $214 per acre, a $2 per acre increase. In 2011, respondents expected a $24 per acre increase from 2011 to 2012.

6. Most respondents expect the 2013 corn price to be between $6 and $7 per bushel: 3 percent believe prices will be above $8 per bushel, 18 percent between $7 and $8 per bushel, 49 percent between $6 and $7 per bushel, 27 percent between $5 and $6 per bushel, and 3 percent below $5 per bushel.

7. Most respondents expect 2013 production costs to increase slightly over 2012 levels. Seventy-six percent be- lieve they will increase slightly, while 5 percent expect large increases. Fourteen percent expect production costs to remain the same. Five percent expect cost decreases.

Leasing Arrangements

8. For 2012, survey respondents indicate that the following leasing arrangements were used as a percent of rented

acres: a. Share rent – 24 percent,

b. Share rent with modifications –13 percent, c. Fixed cash rent – 35 percent, d. Variable cash rent – 20 percent, e. Custom farming – 8 percent.

9. Respondents do not see much change in lease types moving into 2013: a. Share rent (decrease – 5 percent, the same – 90 percent, increase – 5 percent), b. Modified share rent (decrease – 5 percent, the same – 95 percent), c. Cash rent (the same – 100 percent), d. Variable cash rent (the same – 85 percent, increase – 15 percent), and e. Custom farming (decrease – 4 percent, the same – 96 percent).

10. The average supplemental rent on a share rent is $25 per acre.

Drought Impacts

11. Respondents indicated that 2012 corn yields will be 44 percent lower than expected. Soybean yields in 2012 will be 30 percent lower than expected.

12. Respondents indicated that few 2012 cash rents will be reduced as a result of the drought. Sixty-six percent of respondents indicated that no rents will be reduced while 34 percent of respondents indicated that cash rents will be reduced on less than 25 percent of their farms.

13. The most popular crop insurance product is Revenue Protection (RP). RP accounted for 76 percent of the insured acres. This was following by RP with the harvest price exclusion with 17 percent of acres. Group Risk Income Plan had 5 percent of the acres, followed by Yield Protection with 2 percent of the acres.

14. Coverage levels on RP polices were: a. 60% or lower coverage levels: 1 percent of acres, b. 65% coverage level: 3 percent, c. 70% coverage level: 15 percent, d. 75% coverage level: 24 percent, e. 80% coverage level 35 percent, and f. 85% coverage level: 22 percent.

15. Seventy-five percent of respondents believe that the drought will have no impact on farmland prices. Fifteen percent expected prices to decrease as a result of the drought and 10 percent expected farmland prices to rise.

16. Seventy-seven percent of respondents expect the drought to have no impact on 2013 cash rents. Twelve per- cent expect 2013 rents to decrease and 11 percent expect 2013 cash rents to decrease

17. Overall, respondents’ expect the 2012 drought to have limited impacts on farmland prices and cash rents.

Miscellaneous

18. The average charge for on-farm grain bin storage is $.14 per bushel.

19. The average charge for pasture is $40 per acre.

20. Respondents were asked an open ended question on what are the most important factors influencing farm- land prices over the next 12 months. The most common answers are grain prices and interest rates. Other re- sponses included politics and the 2012 election, legislation (Farm Bill, tax policies), returns on alternative invest- ments, crop expenses, investor demand, and local yields this and next year.

Here are a few specific “farm and ranch” listings:

Property Manager – Farm and Ranch (Springfield, Ill.)

Property Manager – Farm, Ranch, and Timberland (Baton Rouge, La.)

Property Manager – Farm and Ranch (Fort Worth, Tex.)

Property Manager – Farm and Ranch (Indianapolis)

Property Manager – Farm, Ranch, and Timberland (Oklahoma City)

You can also email Christine Condra, Human Resources Manager.