Iowa-based FarmlandFinder last week launched the first marketplace that will allow landowners to buy and sell farmland entirely online. 

“Farmland is a highly fragmented and opaque market,” says Steven Brockshus, founder and CEO of FarmlandFinder, which won the American Farm Bureau’s 2019 Ag Innovation Chal­­lenge. “There are more ab­­sentee landowners today than ever before. Farmers are looking for optionality when it comes to expanding their land base, ...