Published December 20, 2012, 10:29 AM

GUEBERT: Crop insurance pushing land prices 'to the moon'

Many ingredients go into the rocket fuel that pushes land values and rents to the moon: commodity prices, aggressive local farmers, excess machinery capacity, cheap labor, low interest rates, federal farm program benefits. A new, major ingredient, however, is federal crop insurance.

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