Farmland values in many parts of the Midwest have risen 20 to 30 percent in the past year.

Wayne Schoper, a farm business management instructor with South Central College in Mankato, says quality ground is fetching $10,000 to $12,000 an acre in south-central Minnesota.

“Let’s just say a good parcel with drainage, some native fertility, kind of a generally good soil type.”

He tells Brownfield the current farmland market reminds him of 2012.

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