Rural land is way over priced right now. You can't pay the note off in 30 years farming it. You can get a better return on money buying over priced land and charging rent to farmer than CDs/savings accounts. Why prime/marginal Ag land is so high. Got a few millions in cash, buy 400 acres at $6500 an acre, charge $180 a year rent, gross $72k per year at that price.
400 acres x $6500/acre= $2,600,000
$180/acre/year x 400 acres = $72,000
$2,600,000 invested / $72,000/ year income = 36.1 years to break even. Assuming zero property taxes and or upkeep on the land. Obviously you have the land as an asset, but that doesn't seem like a great use of $2.5mil. With even a crap safe 3.5% interest rate you'd have almost $9mil in that time.