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.
As a result, there is still a demand for farmland but not much available for sale.â. As of July 1, 2013, he said, farmland prices averaged $13,200 for excellent quality farmland in Illinois, $11,200 for good land, $9,000 for average quality land and $8,300 for fair quality farmland.