Profits lure investors to farmland In Arkansas
- Arkansas Business
- 19 November 2012
Continued economic uncertainties are prompting a back-to-the-land movement among investors. And a favored choice of land is farmland.
Continued economic uncertainties are prompting a back-to-the-land movement among investors. And a favored choice of land is farmland.
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