Not long ago we sold a 67 acre farm at auction for $737,000. It was a difficult piece of ground to farm because it was shaped sort of like the State of Idaho and had an east to west running ridge in it, so it had to be irrigated by ridge-till gravity or farmed as dryland. The neighbors on the east and west bid it up, with the neighbor on the east winning it. I'm sure that he would have liked to have paid less $$ for it, but he could have stopped bidding at any time, so I'm not feeling sorry for him.
