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The Auction “The farmland market is on fire right now,” Steve Bruere, President of Peoples Company, says. “Farmers have been aggressive buyers and outside capital hasn’t historically been able to compete locally, but this land is more unique because of the easement.” Bruere says several out-of-state inquiries have been made and he anticipates a mix of market participants. The easement requires that certain sustainable agriculture practices be used on the farms and that conservation measures and structures currently utilized on the farms be maintained. The practices include no-till farming, annual cover crop plantings post-harvest with the basis of having continuous, living roots in the soil, and maintenance of existing terraces and waterways.
Garst farmland near Coon Rapids to be sold at auction, placed in conservation easement Monday, July 19, 2021 2:54 PM Farmland owned by the Garst family, who hosted Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the 1950s, will be sold at auction next month and placed into what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind soil conservation easement overseen by Whiterock Conservancy. The 1,900 acres near Coon Rapids, about 70 miles northwest of Des Moines, will be sold in eight parcels. Sealed bids must be submitted by the end of business on Aug. 6, with a live auction scheduled for Aug. 17 at the Raccoon River Social Club in Coon Rapids. The sale is expected to close on Sept. 17. The properties are being sold by the grandchildren of Roswell Garst, who developed state-of-the-art farming practices, and introduced Pioneer hybrid corn seed to the western corn belt. He befriended Khrushchev because he believed that hungry people were dangerous people, and that the seeds