“…As Triplett (1991) points out, if the commodity quality encompasses many characteristics, or the commodity is complex in its use, the hedonic pricing model is easily vulnerable to missing variable bias. Important determinants of farmland value that have been identified in the literature include: productivity (e.g., soil quality) and profitability (Sandrey et al 1982, Boisvert, Schmit, and Regmi 1997, Moss 1997, Huang et al 2006), farm size (Sandrey et al 1982, Huang et al 2006, Cotteleer, Stobbe, and van Kooten 2011), inflation (Moss 1997), environmental vulnerability (Boisvert, Schmit, and Regmi 1997, Schlenker, Hanemann, and Fisher 2006, Mendelsohn and Reinsborough 2007), land use policy (Nickerson and Lynch 2001), location and proximity (Boisvert, Schmit, and Regmi 1997, Huang et al 2006, Cotteleer, Stobbe, and van Kooten 2011, Abelairas-Etxebarria and Astorkiza 2012), land price volatility (Cotteleer, Stobbe, and van Kooten 2011), and local demographics (Huang et al 2006, Salois, Moss, and Erickson 2012, Awasthi 2014). Though subject to data availability, the empirical model in this paper takes into account the majority of these factors.…”