This paper relies on data associated 2,100 agricultural land sale transactions across two major Nebraska Watersheds (the Republican and Central Platte) over the 2000 to 2008 time period. The sales were spatially referenced (digitized into a GIS) in order to quantify and geo-spatially predict and...

Agricultural and energy commodity prices have traditionally exhibited relatively low – even negative correlation. However, the recent increases in biofuel production have altered the agriculture-energy relationship in a fundamental way. The amount of corn utilized for ethanol production in the...