Agricultural land purchases by non-local buyers for hunting purposes (106 sales) were compared to nearby (comparable) land purchases of local agricultural producers (318 sales) in the Southwest and Prairie Pothole Regions (PPR) of North Dakota from 2000 to 2004. In the PPR (dominated by...

Statewide agricultural land values from 3,243 arms-length market sales in North Dakota between 2001 and 2004 were 6 percent higher than estimates derived from the June Agricultural Survey (JAS) of National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), and 9 percent higher than values from the North...