Buying & Selecting Land

Category: land-management
Topic keys: land-purchase, property-selection, new-property, real-estate, land-ownership, land-investment, property-purchase

Current guidance

As of 2026-05-31, the most recent claim on this subject.

On buying and selecting land, they emphasize what surrounds a property over its reputation: Don argues that an ideally laid-out farm outside a known trophy area will outproduce a well-known farm over time, and that the specific property matters more than its county or state. Bryhn Craft advises buying the best affordable ground rather than a cheaper one, since top properties return far more, though he is separately testing how productive a modest 100-acre cow-pasture farm can become. Don has passed on tracts bordering public land over hunting-pressure risk. Citing Brian Kraft’s research, Don notes land has appreciated about 7% a year over the last forty years, and describes his own land purchases, per his banker, as calculated risks that pay off.

How the guidance evolved

Contradictions & open questions

Places where the show’s advice on this subject appears to disagree with itself, either between speakers or over time. Both claims are shown as they were said, with dates. Nothing here is resolved — which one applies is the reader’s call, and the owners’.

Questions on this topic

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