Extension Presentations

2025

  1. How do Land Markets Work? Ag Credit School, Iowa Bankers Association and Iowa State University, Ankeny, Iowa, June 5, 2025.
  2. Farm Real Estate, Ag Credit School, Iowa Bankers Association and Iowa State University, Ankeny, Iowa, June 3, 2025.
  3. Influences on Land Values and Ownership, Farmland Owners Workshop, Altoona, Iowa, May 16, 2025.
  4. Introduction to Farmland Markets, Invited Guest Lecture for Agronomy AGRON 4500: Issues in Sustainable Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, April 17, 2025.
  5. 2024 in Review: The Land Markets Landscape, Farmland Owners Workshop, Altoona, Iowa, February 21, 2025. (~70 farmland owners).
  6. Farmland Values in a Changing Market, Crops TV Series, ISU Extension and Outreach Crops Team. February 6, 2025.
  7. Overview of the Farmland Markets, Pro-Ag Outlook Meeting at Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA. February 3, 2025. (~50 students)
  8. Land Values in 2024 and expectations for 2025. Webinar in Northern Iowa, January 7, 2025.

2024

  1. Overview of the 2024 Land Markets, Women in Ag Webinar, Ag Decision Maker, December 19, 2024.
  2. 2024 Iowa Land Value Survey Press Conference, Press Conference, Curtiss Hall ISU, December 17, 2024 ( YouTube live streaming).
  3. Land market insights: Trends, drivers, and foreign ownership, 35th Integrated Crop Management Conference, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, 11-12 December 2024. (~300 crop advisers and farmers)
  4. Economic Analysis of Farmland Markets: An Introduction, Invited Guest Lecture for Ag Economics ECON 2300 Farm Business Management, Ames, Iowa, September 24, 2024 (~100 students).
  5. Ag Economic Update: Crops, Livestock, and Land, Agricultural Law Seminar, Center for Agricultural Law and Taxation, Ankeny, Iowa, September 17, 2024. (~100 ag lawyers and farmers).
  6. Who Owns Iowa Land? Serbian Women in Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, September 16, 2024. (~10 agribusiness owners and policy makers from Serbia).
  7. Soft Landing? Iowa Farmland Values and Market Dynamics, Farmland Owners Workshop, Altoona, Iowa, September 6, 2024. (~70 farmland owners).
  8. Iowa & Midwest Farmland Ownership Dynamics, Women in Ag, Southeast Iowa Women Managing Farmland Forum, Iowa City, Iowa, September 4, 2024. (~25 farmland owners)
  9. Domestic, Absentee, and Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land, 2024 North Central Farm Management Committee Meeting, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, August 13, 2024 (~50 agricultural economists)
  10. Land Value Predictions, 2024 SMLV Land and Commodity Price Predictions, 2024 ISU 96th Annual Soil Management and Land Valuation Conference, Scheman Building, Ames, Iowa, May 15, 2024 (~200 farm managers, appraisers, ag lenders)
  11. Land Values and the new Land Economist, 2024 ISU Extension and Outreach Crops Team Spring In-Service, March 20, 2024.
  12. From Pakistan to the Midwest, Iowa State University Agricultural Business Club, Curtiss Hall, Ames, Iowa, February 1, 2024.
  13. Introduction to the Farmland Markets Extension Program, ASFMRA Annual Meetings, January 31-Februrary 1, 2024. (~150 farm managers, appraisers, ag lenders)

2023

  1. 2023 Iowa Land Value Survey Press Conference, Press Conference, Curtiss Hall ISU, December 12, 2023 ( YouTube live streaming).
  2. Roots and Returns: Iowa Farmland Values and Ownership Dynamics, 34th Integrated Crop Management Conference, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, 4-5 December 2023. (~300 crop advisers and farmers)
  3. Iowa Farmland Ownership Dynamics, 2023 Midwest Agriculture Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Invited Talk, 28 November 2023. (~100 ag policy stakeholders, economists, ag lenders)
  4. Roots and Returns: Iowa Farmland Values and Ownership Dynamics, 2023 Virtual Pro-Ag Outlook Webinar, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, 14 November 2023.
  5. Farm Financial Outlook: Land Values and Cash Rents. Where Have They Been? And Where Will They Go? Extension seminar, Iowa State University, 26 January 2023.

2022

  1. Ohio Farm Finance Outlook, OSU Agricultural Policy and Outlook Conference (contribution), 15 November 2022.
  2. Boom or Bust: Where are Ohio Farms Financially? Ask the Expert, OSU Farm Science Review, 20 September 2022, London, OH.

2021

  1. Formalizing Farm Financial Documents for Better Farm Management, AAEA Extension Graduate Student Competition, AAEA Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, 2022. [ link].
  2. Are Our Farms Financially Secure? Ask the Expert (contribution), OSU Farm Science Review, 21 September 2021, London, OH.