The President of the Senate (who by the Constitution is also the Vice President of the United States) is Joseph Robinette BIDEN (D). The President pro tempore of the Senate is Daniel Ken INOUYE (D-HI). The Senate Majority Leader is Harry Mason REID (D-NV). The Senate Minority Leader is Addison Mitchell McCONNELL (R-KY).
The crash was especially severe in Iowa, where the value of the state's farmland plunged from $2,147 an acre in 1981 to a low of $787 five years later, a drop of 63 percent. A third of the state's farms went out of business.
Agricultural Land Values Highlights. The United States farm real estate value, a measurement of the value of all land and buildings on farms, averaged. $3,020 per acre for 2015, up 2.4 percent from 2014 values. Regional changes in the average value of farm real estate. ranged from a 6.1 percent increase in the Southern Plains region to 0.3 percent decrease in the Corn Belt region. The. highest farm real estate values were in the Corn Belt region at $6,350 per acre.