The Illinois farmdoc team and the Purdue University Center for Commercial Agriculture are hosting the 45th annual Top Farmer Crop Workshop, July 9-11, in West Lafayette, Ind. This year's workshop will cover a number of timely and important issues relevant to commercial farming operations. Farmland markets in most of the U.S. corn-belt have experienced substantial price appreciation since roughly 2001. At the upcoming Top Farmer workshop we will be presenting some interesting results of a recent Center for Commercial Agriculture survey of 246 farmland investors.

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