By Des Keller
Contributing Editor
The skies are mud-gray, and a steady morning rain has slowed, but not stopped, Kyle Amos and Kenneth Warlick's tour of Mississippi Delta farmland for sale. These two native Texans aren't just window-shopping.
We pull up alongside a long, slightly rolling 550-acre field planted to soybeans near Clarksdale. The price is $3,000 per acre, a number that would have been outrageous three years ago. "There's a lot of people who would pay more for that small a tract," says Warlick.
Yes, he referred to 550 acres as a "small tract." When it comes to buying ...