While farmland sales were down for the first half of 2025, many of the farms that did sell, ended up as part of a consolidation.
Paul Shadegg is Senior Vice President of Real Estate at Farmers National Company. He says it’s farmland staying farmland, just changing hands.
“We see consolidation within those farmer operators. The farm operations continue to get larger. We see fewer these small they’re still family farms, but they’re not the small family farm that we came to know. And then we do see on the institutional side, we do see some consolidation, where one fund might sell out to another fund and make a, you know, a bigger fund. And we are seeing some of that.”
Shadegg says farmland has held its value well so far in 2025 and farm profitability will be the driver for the rest of the year.
“If things kind of stay the same, I don’t think we’ll see much change. But if we see any hiccups that affect the farm economy in a negative fashion, I think we could see somewhat of a downturn in general. And you know, those, those geopolitical events, uncertainty, these tariffs and things like that, are all playing a little part in in the in our US economy in general, but, but really have an opportunity to impact the ag economy.”
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