Farmland has become scarce and expensive as growers plow their profits back into their operations. Tree fruit growers who have been making good profits in recent years and might be looking to expand are competing for land with other farmers, who are also enjoying a profitable period. “General agriculture land is in very short supply,” reported Steve Weber at Clark Jennings & Associates, Inc., an agricultural real estate company in Yakima, Washington. “All the commodity crops, with perhaps the exception of hops and dairy, have been so strong in the last couple of years that we have a lot of […]