Agriculture battles inflation, land prices

Supply, demand rule agricultural pricing

FORT COLLINS – Agriculture remains big business in Northern Colorado, but it is a business that is changing and not always keeping up in value with inflation. And in many areas along the Front Range, it also is a business that is competing with strip malls and housing subdivisions for land that is rapidly increasing in value, while bucking fluctuating livestock and commodity prices that sometimes are right out of the ’50s. The total value of crop and livestock production has grown over the last 15 years, according to The Northern Colorado Business Report’s Leading Agricultural…