Farmland is all we do.
And nobody here does it bigger.
An on-staff licensed appraiser. A licensed auctioneer. A marketing machine unparalleled in the industry. $100M+ in total production since 2018 — including 87 farm & land sales worth $62.6 million — across Southern Illinois. When your ground hits the market, every acre gets priced like we own it ourselves.
Prefer the phone? Call or text Mitch directly: 618-292-7227
Two ways to sell. We'll tell you
which one your ground deserves.
Most agents only know one way to sell land. We run both — and we'll show you the math on which puts more in your pocket before you sign anything.
Competitive bidding. Your timeline. No ceiling.
Our proprietary auction system puts every serious buyer in the region on your farm at the same time — and lets them bid the price up instead of negotiating it down.
- ✓ You pick the sale date — certainty, not months of waiting
- ✓ Targeted marketing to farmers, investors & 1031 buyers
- ✓ Multi-tract strategy that maximizes total price
- ✓ Negotiation training from the FBI's former playbook (Chris Voss method)
Full-market exposure, priced by an appraiser.
Some ground sells best the classic way. When it does, your price gets set by a licensed appraiser's analysis — not a guess off somebody's website.
- ✓ Appraiser-backed pricing from day one
- ✓ MLS + land-buyer network exposure
- ✓ Flexible commission structures
- ✓ Fire us anytime — no locked-in listing contracts
One farm.
Three numbers.
The same land is worth different things depending on how you sell it. That's why our in-house valuation engine — GAIA, trained on 120+ signed local farmland appraisals and reviewed weekly by a certified local appraiser — prices your farm three ways before you pick a strategy.
Data-Based Value
What the soil, the productivity index, and real comparable sales say your ground is worth — the number an appraisal would circle.
Typical Market Sale
What your farm most likely brings in an arm's-length sale on today's market, listed and negotiated the conventional way.
Auction Value
What competitive bidding could do on auction day — the spread between this number and the others is the whole conversation.
Historically within 10% of a certified local appraiser's opinion of value 7 times out of 10 on cropland — and it prices wooded and recreational ground the big national platforms won't touch. Estimates are model-generated for planning purposes, not a certified appraisal.
Southern Illinois, county by county.
Every number below is a closed MLS transaction with our name on it — not a service-area circle on a map.
Also closed: Moultrie Co. ($10.95M · 650 ac) and Iroquois Co. ($2.17M · 348 ac). If your farm is in Illinois, we'll drive.
An appraiser and an auctioneer
walk onto your farm.
That's not the setup to a joke — it's the only team in the region where the person pricing your land is a licensed appraiser and the person selling it is a licensed auctioneer.
Mitch Cain
Real Broker, LLC
$100M+ in total production since 2018 — including 87 MLS-recorded farm & land sales worth $62.6M, #1 in farm & land volume in the MARIS MLS since 2024. Farms 108 acres at a time, priced one soil type at a time — from his home ground in Patoka.
Meet Mitch →
Chad Klein
Real Broker, LLC
120 closings and $32.1M in volume since 2022, with 39% of his 2024+ listings selling over asking — the guy you want holding the gavel when your farm's price is still climbing. Real Producers magazine recognition.
Meet Chad →“Not hiring Mitch would have cost me $1.5 million.”
— Sam Mateer · 1,465 acres · Fayette County
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