The Land Group

By: Ben Alder

Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) once said “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” More than 200 years later this fact remains true. The most interesting part is today it seems to no longer be a secret. The demand for recreational land, agricultural and timberland alike...

The sign pointed to the dirt lane and I pulled left off the hard top into the woodland.  I quickly realized we were in for a wet and bumpy ride.  The dirt road meandered through this bottomland and the Spanish Moss weeping from the over story of the forest still...

Before you start sending me hate mail for the title of my article, it is clear that today’s commodity prices have taken the wind out of the sail since 2012 when well-known Wall Street investor Jim Rogers made this statement: “The title did however grab your attention enough to read...

Why Buy Farmland?
by Nick Campanaro

I entered the agricultural real estate market just over 9 years ago. Coming from a background in economics, I was driven to learn the reasoning behind a farmland investment. Through my years of experience speaking with landowners and investors, as well as extensive reading on the...

The utility of land is a primary factor in measuring land value.  By utility, I mean what can you do “on or with” a land tract.  Clearly, land use zoning also plays a critical role in this equation.  Fundamentally, we study the intersection of land use and land utility in...

Welcome to our 7th Annual Land Report. The Land Group has completed another trip around the sun, and we are pleased to bring you our findings from another year working in the dirt. 2021 was to put it in basic terms, OUSTANDING!  
The Company saw over 100% growth in...

More than 10 years ago today, I drove to an old farm lane with an enormous locked wooden gate.  The gate was made with large rough-cut timber stained red.  The daunting gate was softened by a frame of old cedar trees.  The tree-lined lane bordered with mature cedars and pines...

By: John Campagna, Land Advisor

As a land advisor, we guide landowners and investors to buy and sell land.  Clearly, land has a myriad of uses and these land uses all take on different strategies for short-and-long-term management.  Obvious land uses include; agriculture, hunting, and recreation, and today some of...

A slight breeze moves the leaves of the grassy opening, sunlight floods the buggy as we enter the small clearing. Forest openings are interesting in that they give you a sense of being within a place.

Doug has brought Nick and I nearly into the center of this 150 acre timber...

Aix sponsa, the wood duck, the Carolina duck and also sometimes referred to by old timers as “summer ducks”.  To me, they are the most amazing duck and while Mallard is the “King Duck” I would personally give the nod to a flight of 6 woodies over old Mr. Green...

Over the past several Winters, I have learned to appreciate the order of Winter and what it hides. What I mean to say is, the landscape appears with greater contrast and definitive edge. The manner in which the switch grass outlines the cropland while winter wheat works to take hold...

A Good Year and Onward...

In 2020,  The Land Group assisted our clients in the acquisition, disposition, or lease of over 13,000 acres.  9,000 acres were direct transition of ownership while the 4,000 acres of land leasing was completed for agricultural operators.  Broad metrics for The Land Group in 2020 yielded...