MURRAY WISE ASSOCIATES LLC
CHAMPAIGN, IL

Murray Wise Associates is a company built on a foundation of integrity, innovation and excellence. The people at Murray Wise Associates are motivated by a common goal: helping you achieve the highest return possible on your land and agriculture investments. As the leading expert in land, auction and agribusiness related transactions, we provide a complete range of services in the acquisition, management and disposition of your land and agriculture investments. We are established as a leading transaction advisory firm, selling more than $2.5 billion of land and agribusinesses in 40 states over the past twenty years. Along with land auctions across the United States and providing real estate and farm management services for individual clients, Murray Wise Associates provides a wide variety of services. We are an integral part of the entire agriculture supply chain—buying or selling land through listing or land auction, managing land portfolios, finding capital for growing companies and buying and selling agribusiness. At Murray Wise Associates, we know real estate and agriculture, and we know people looking to buy and sell land and agribusiness. Let us put our transaction expertise to work for you. "IOWA, Webster County - In a leaseback sale, 142 acres of farmland sold to an investor for $1.19 million, or $8,380 per acre. The seller will continue to farm the property." -Farmland Sales Report Growing the business. Cultivating our strengths. Harvesting the success. Murray Wise founded the Westchester Group in 1986 after acquiring the Champaign, IL division of the Sandage Companies, a traditional farm management and brokerage firm. Soon after, Westchester Group formed a strategic partnership with Cozad Asset Management. What started with small farmland-investor relations in the Midwest soon grew into working with institutional investors on a national scale. Then in 1988, Westchester collaborated with a firm specializing in auction marketing of farm machinery and real estate. This alliance combined auction experience with unprecedented marketing expertise, perfecting the sophisticated multi-parcel auction system that made Westchester Auctions the land marketing authority. Over the next 20 years, Westchester steadily grew to a be a national leader with offices in seven states, $900 million in agricultural assets for clients, and $2.0 billion in real estate sold, along with numerous marketing excellence awards. In 2010, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Associations of America (TIAA) purchased a majority of the global investment division of Westchester Group. This allowed Westchester Auctions, now Murray Wise Associates and Murray Wise Capital, to focus on land and agribusiness transactions. In the years since the spin-off, Murray Wise Associates and its subsidiaries have managed over $200 million in farmland assets and sold over $550M in agricultural assets at auction, through private treaty, and corporate restructuring transactions. We have acted as advisors for bankruptcies, distressed asset sales and estate motivated transactions as well as marketing, purchasing, and managing farmland across the Unites States. Today, the company is completely focused on achieving the ownership and investment objectives of our clients and continuing the tradition of growth, innovation and commitment to excellence in the land marketing and global agricultural arenas. "IOWA, Webster County - In a leaseback sale, 142 acres of farmland sold to an investor for $1.19 million, or $8,380 per acre. The seller will continue to farm the property." -Farmland Sales Report  with a 9,000+ head capacity formerly operated as Bliss Dairy sold this past week for a combined total of $8,375,000 to two buyers.  The properties, marketed by Murray Wise Associates in cooperation with Woltz and Associates, were involved in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Bliss Dairy LLC in 2013. Murray Wise Associates Foundation Scholarship Deadline Extended to March 31 Agriculture students are invited to apply for scholarships from the Murray Wise Associates Foundation. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 31. "IOWA, Webster County - In a leaseback sale, 142 acres of farmland sold to an investor for $1.19 million, or $8,380 per acre. The seller will continue to farm the property." -Farmland Sales Report Founded in the early 1990's by Norman Gilfenbain and Robert Wiviott, Eclipse Berry Farms is one of the largest vertically integrated grower, packer, shipper, marketer and processors of fresh-picked strawberries. Mr. Gilfenbain, who managed the day to day business of the Company until his death in 2013, started marketing produce under Eclipse's Cal Fruit label in 1963. Mr. Wiviott then succeeded Gilfenbain as the CEO of the Company until he passed away in January of this year. According to Rudy Garza, President & CFO of Eclipse Berry Farms, "This transaction with Superior Fruit is the first step towards an orderly downsizing of the Company's operations. The management and employees of Eclipse look forward to working closely with Bobby and his team to ensure a smooth transition of these leases. At this time, Eclipse will continue growing, marketing and selling berries from Santa Maria, Castroville and Mexico and processing and marketing fruit from its Oxnard and Castroville facilities." "IOWA, Webster County - In a leaseback sale, 142 acres of farmland sold to an investor for $1.19 million, or $8,380 per acre. The seller will continue to farm the property." -Farmland Sales Report Norac Additives has its headquarters and development lab in Pomona, California and a production site in Helena, Arkansas. The company specializes in the production and sale of various plastic additives, including metallic stearates, ester lubricants and PVC heat stabilizers, and possesses long-term application expertise within the plastic industry.   Peter Greven Group was founded in 1923 and has its headquarters in Bad Muenstereifel, Germany, with additional production sites in Venlo, The Netherlands and Penang, Malaysia (Joint Venture), as well as sales offices in Paris, France and Freehold, New Jersey. Peter Greven Group is well positioned internationally, with a broad product range containing metallic and alkali soaps as well as esters and dispersions. The company supplies customers in various industries worldwide. Through the formation of Norac Additives, the company's presence in the USA, as well as its position within the plastic industry worldwide, shall be strengthened and extended.