http://kbia.org en http://kbia.org/post/field-notes-years-top-stories-agriculture <p><em><em>This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s&nbsp;</em><u><a href="http://www.kbia.org/programs/field-notes">Field Notes</a></u><em>, in which reporters talk to newsmakers and experts about important issues related to food production.</em></em></p><p><em><em>For this edition of&nbsp;</em>Field Notes&nbsp;<em>— our first in 2013 — we decided to take a look back at last year’s biggest stories in agriculture.</em></em></p> Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:37:20 +0000 Abbie Fentress Swanson and Peggy Lowe 26826 at http://kbia.org Field Notes: The year's top stories in agriculture http://kbia.org/post/corn-belt-farmland-newest-real-estate-bubble Howard Audsley has been driving through Missouri for the past 30 years to assess the value of farmland. Barreling down the flat roads of Saline County on a recent day, he stopped his truck at a 160-acre tract of newly tilled black land. The land sold in February for $10,700<strong> </strong>per acre, double what it would have gone for five years ago.<p>Heading out into the field, Audsley picked up a clod of the dirt that makes this pocket of land some of the priciest in the state.<p>"This is a very loamy, very productive, but loamy soil," Audsley said. Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:54:00 +0000 Abbie Fentress Swanson 24251 at http://kbia.org Corn Belt Farmland: The Newest Real Estate Bubble?