Daily Sound Bite: From Golf Course to Farmland

Part of a wave of Midwestern farmers snapping up land to cash in on steadily rising commodity prices, Illinois farmer Clark Kelly has purchased the Hend-Co-Hills Golf Course near Biggsville with plans to turn the course into a cornfield.

May 21, 2013

Part of a wave of Midwestern farmers snapping up land to cash in on steadily rising commodity prices, Illinois farmer Clark Kelly has purchased the Hend-Co-Hills Golf Course near Biggsville with plans to turn the course into a cornfield. The land was selling for about one-third the going rate for area farmland. Kelly said,

"That's why I wanted to get my paws on it so bad."

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