North Dakota Cropland Values Make Double Digit Gains While Rents Increase Modestly

Sustained excessive commodity costs have pushed cropland costs greater throughout North Dakota, growing 10.9% from 2021 to 2022. Nonetheless, the statewide money rental price improve was a lot decrease at roughly 3.1%, says Bryon Parman, North Dakota State College Extension agricultural finance specialist.

The 2021 survey carried out by the North Dakota Division of Belief Lands discovered on-line at http://www.land.nd.gov/assets/north-dakota-county-rents-prices-annual-survey confirmed rents had elevated solely 0.77% from 2020 to 2021 and land values have been up 1.74% throughout the identical time interval. In actual fact, from 2015 although 2021, rents and values throughout North Dakota had principally remained flat, and even declined to a point, when inflation changes have been made to the yearly reported charges, says Parman.

“The very best improve in land values statewide from 2015 to 2021 was just one.74% with 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 all displaying small declines in statewide common land values,” Parman provides. “Now we have to return to 2014, the place land costs elevated 8.5%, to seek out a rise as excessive as that proven from 2021 to 2022.”

Statewide cropland rental charges have been reluctant to extend on the identical price as values. With charges growing 3.1%, we want solely return to the interval from 2018 to 2019 to discover a comparable improve the place throughout that interval, statewide common charges elevated 3.61%, he provides.

With important decreases in rental charges in 2016 and 2018 and a slight lower in 2020, the three.1% improve from 2021 to 2022 primarily helps maintain charges regular statewide during the last seven years. If accounting for inflation, rental charges in “actual {dollars}” have declined considerably in comparison with the place they have been in 2015.

With respect to land values, six NDSU Extension areas noticed double-digit positive aspects in land values. The very best regional improve for 2022 occurred within the southeast the place land values elevated 22.25%. The subsequent highest was the east-central area, growing 17.22%. The northwest, northeast and southwest areas all elevated between 11% and 12%. The north-central, north Purple River Valley and south Purple River Valley all elevated between 6% and seven% whereas the south-central NDSU area elevated the least at practically 5%.

The south Purple River Valley stays the most costly farmland at $4,521 per acre on common. The second most costly areas stay the southeastern NDSU Extension area and the north Purple River Valley area. The least costly areas stay the northwest area and the north-central NDSU Extension areas.

Rental price will increase have been a lot smaller with three NDSU areas close to or beneath a 0% improve and no areas growing greater than 5%. The biggest improve in money rents occurred within the north-central, southwest and southeast areas, all growing practically 5%. The south-central and south Purple River Valley areas each elevated roughly 3.5% whereas the northeast elevated 2.85%. Nonetheless, the north Purple River Valley elevated solely 0.6% whereas the east-central didn’t improve in any respect. The northwest truly decreased 1.1%, Parman says.

The very best cropland rental charges stay within the south Purple River Valley area at a median of $132.80 per acre with the southeast and the north Purple River Valley coming in second and third at $99.30 and $92.60 per acre, respectively. The bottom charges stay within the northwest at $34.60 per acre and the southwest at $38.90 per acre. The remaining areas sit between about $54 per acre (north-central) and practically $70 per acre (east-central).

“Whereas excessive commodity costs and maybe inflation seem to have pushed up the worth of farmland, it additionally seems that prime manufacturing prices and presumably the power to safe new or used tools has muted a rise in rental charges,” Parman says. “Certainly, low rates of interest, and robust internet farm incomes in 2020 and particularly 2021 have inspired farmers to pay extra for farmland coming available on the market.”

Parman concludes, “Land consumers even have the fairness and time part on their facet and are prepared to miss excessive manufacturing prices for a 12 months or so. Nonetheless, potential renters should give attention to what’s going on this 12 months, and there seems to be a reluctance to pay considerably extra in money rents than was paid from 2020 to 2021. Moreover, 2022 shall be following a drought over a lot of North Dakota, limiting the urge for food for paying greater rents. Nonetheless, the 2021 drought doesn’t seem to have been robust sufficient to negate the impression of excessive commodity costs and low rates of interest impression on land values.”

–NDSU Extension