The sky-high prices for corn, soybeans, wheat and other commodities are leaving growers loaded with cash to purchase more farmland, and what the farmers don't pay for themselves they may be able to finance easily with the record-low interest rates on loans.
Both cash and credit have fueled interest and acquisitions of land values across the Midwest, stoking fears of a bubble ready to burst. The concern isn’t if the bubble will break, but when.