smarty pants. and i m s in iowa. mana from mervyheaven. you ve got a farmland surge. when you look at small iowa farmers, the average farmland per acre last year was $6,000. one of the best investments you could have made last year, buying farmland to farm. i mean, you ve got all of these people sitting at the diner and at the greain elevator saying should, i sell now? will it be better next year? farmland s doing great, home prices pretty stable, but the economy is an important issue in iowa. here s why. young people having a harder time finding a job and it s just this feeling of a lack of opportunity and a feeling that maybe america s best days might be behind it. that s something iowans don t like to even have to question. right? for the first time, its population was above 3 million.
it reached 3 million people in 2010. when i was growing up, you d say there were more pigs than people in iowa. people are going there to caucus tonight and they re going without this feeling of foreboding about their own job. which we all have. a little different there. what s the deal? why are they bucking the trend in real estate, in housing sales, in unemployment. not just bucking the trend, completely reversing it. a speculative bubble in iowa. there were low some subprime loans but not like the places in florida, nevada and the like. it wasn t inflated to begin wit? no, no. right. and all the deals, are you kidding me? maybe you are 25%, but it s not as critical there, the housing issue. and that farmland, anything has that has to do with a farm, going gang buster. deere, capital investments, still a feeling they want to make sure that america s going