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Kishore, S., Nemati, M., Dinar, A., Struthers, C. L., MacKenzie, S., & Shugart, M. S. Trends in California Farmland Sales Prices and the Impacts of Drought. Agricultural and Resource Economics ARE UPDATE, Vol. 27, No. 2.

This paper describes the trends in the California farmland market across counties and crop types over the past two decades. We explored the trends in farmland sales transactions and farmland values during drought events. The number of parcels sold and farmland value increased following the major drought periods in California between 2001 and 2021.
Kishore, S., Nemati, M., Dinar, A., Struthers, C. L., MacKenzie, S., & Shugart, M. S. (2024). The Changing Face of Farmland in California’s Central Valley: Crop Types and Land Quality. Agricultural and Resource Economics ARE UPDATE, Vol. 28, No. 1.

We examine spatial and temporal trends in crop-specific land-use decisions at the parcel level by land capability class—land quality—in California’s Central Valley from 2008 to 2021. Our findings indicate that the land-use share of perennial crops has increased by 9 percentage points since 2008, though this growth varies depending on land quality. Specifically, the land-use share of perennial crops increased 11 percentage points for high-quality lands and 7 percentage points for low-quality lands. The land-use share of annual crops significantly decreased for both high-quality and low-quality land, but only marginally decreased for poor-quality land.