Editor’s note
6/15/2025 — This revised publication is currently only available as a PDF. The full text will be available on this webpage soon.
For historical information, view opinion survey results from previous years.
In Missouri, land sale prices are not required to be reported to any government or public agency. In turn, it is challenging to understand current values and forward-looking projections for the state’s farmland market. This report summarizes results from a web-based survey conducted by the University of Missouri Extension Agricultural Business and Policy group, which aims to lend insight into perceived changes in farmland values across Missouri. This information supplements state-level estimates published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).
The most recent survey was conducted between March 2025 and May 2025 and collected 417 responses. Landowners accounted for 37% of responses, lenders 13%, farm managers 9%, government employees 6%, appraisers 3% and individuals with other occupations 32%. Based on their knowledge of land transactions in the past year, each respondent could report land values for up to three counties; land types include cropland, pastureland, timberland and hunting/recreation land. In total, the survey captured 2,072 land-value observations.
USDA Agricultural Statistics Districts (ASD) boundaries were used to aggregate the data, capturing variation in geography, climate and cropping practices. This categorization divides Missouri into nine regions: Northwest, North Central, Northeast, West, Central, East, Southwest, South Central and Southeast. A 10th Urban region was created for the state’s urban areas, comprising Platte County, Clay County, Jackson County, St. Charles County and St. Louis County. Figure 1 denotes these regions with dark borders. Counties in gray indicate areas from which no survey responses were collected across any type of land, and regional estimates may or may not reflect land values in nonreporting counties.
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