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Abstract
Historically, cropland rental rates
have been substantially higher than
rental rates for pasture. Currently
however, the gap between selling
prices of cropland and pasture in
Oklahoma has shrunk in western
Oklahoma and pasture now sells for
more than cropland in eastern
Oklahoma. Regression results show
that primarily two factors explain
this shrinkage. One is that the
explosion in the deer population has
increased the value of controlling
deer hunting rights; the other is that
increases in income have created a
demand for land for noncommercial
farms and ex-urban
development. The income approach
has become less useful to land
appraisers, which may be due to
difficulty in measuring returns from
hunting rights and hobby farming.