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Following the Market? Hedonic Farmland Valuation Using Sales Prices versus Self-reported Values

Daniel P. Bigelow, Jennifer Ifft and Todd Kuethe
Land Economics, August 2020, 96 (3) 418-440; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/le.96.3.418

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Following the Market? Hedonic Farmland Valuation Using Sales Prices versus Self-reported Values
Daniel P. Bigelow, Jennifer Ifft, Todd Kuethe
Land Economics Aug 2020, 96 (3) 418-440; DOI: 10.3368/le.96.3.418
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