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...

Hedonic price modeling of 1,951 non-pasture agricultural land sales across North Dakota indicates that land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) sold for 14 percent less than otherwise similar cropland over the 2000 to 2004 time period. This price discount is assumed to result from...

The impact of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grass and wetland easements on agricultural land values across three counties in the Prairie Pothole Region of South Dakota were determined by comparing the sale prices of 38 easement encumbered properties sold between 1994 and 2000 across 9 counties...