Cash rental rates have been climbing over the past decade, but the biggest increases have happened outside the Corn Belt.

David Widmar, managing partner at Agricultural Economic Insights, tells Brownfield…

“We had really big changes, 50% changes, in cash rental rates,” he says, “in the northern Great Plains, in the western parts of say, Kansas, and parts of Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and even southern parts of Kentucky and Tennessee.”

He says it’s the result of farmers cropping decisions.

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