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Our Mission: To develop and maintain an efficient, easy to use, and flexible tool for processing rural appraisals.
The development of the UAAR® is important in standardizing rural appraisal and review reports. Initially, the format was designed to meet the Farmer Mac reporting standards, but it was quickly adapted to address the requirements of the profession, including the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP). The UAAR® follows the course work of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA) and Appraising Rural Properties, a rural valuation textbook (a joint venture with the ASFMRA and the Appraisal Institute).
AgWare, Inc. was established in 1990 and is the owner of the Federally Registered Trademark "UAAR®" and the copyrighted UAAR® Forms, the recommended Appraiser's Guidebook to the UAAR®, and the Standard Appraisal Review Report (SARRTM). Its owners are as follows:
John T. Widdoss, ARA, MAI, received his B.A. Degree in Economics from Concordia College in Minnesota. Mr. Widdoss is a partner in Hall-Widdoss & Co., Inc., a firm established in 1981 as a real estate appraisal and consulting business covering the states of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, and the Dakotas since 1977. The firm specializes in urban investment property, agricultural, minerals, water (including waterfalls), fire damage, fractional interest, contaminated, recreational, transitional, and subdivision land appraisals – inclusive of properties condemned under eminent domain plus federal and state land exchanges. Additionally, Mr. Widdoss has experience with rangeland, irrigation, and dry cropland management.
Mr. Widdoss is a Past President of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. He is author of the ASFMRA’s Advanced Rural Appraisal (A-30) and Uniform Agricultural Appraisal Report (A-22) courses; co-developer of the Advanced Resource Appraisal (A-34), Advanced Appraisal Review (A-35), and Advanced Rural Case Studies (A-40) courses; was involved in the revision and rewriting of the Appraisal Report Writing (A-15) course; and has authored or co-authored several appraisal seminars for the ASFMRA – as well as a contributing author to the 2nd Edition of the Rural Appraisal Textbook published in 2001 with the Appraisal Institute. His most recent endeavor has been development of the Uniform Agricultural Appraisal Report (UAAR) Form, Guidebook and Software and the Standard Appraisal Review Report (SARR) Form.
Mr. Widdoss received his ARA designation from the Society in 1982 and has been an instructor since 1984. He has served on the Appraisal Education, Membership Development Committees of the ASFMRA, the Executive Council as First Vice President and President, on the Advisory Council of the Education Foundation Committee, and chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the ASFMRA. He was active in forming the first question “pool” given to state certified appraisers assembled by Princeton’s ETS & ASI Testing Center (1988-1990). He is also an active member of the Appraisal Institute (designation in 1984), Vice-Chair of the Centre for Advanced Property Economics (CAPE) chairing the Mineral, Corridor, and Water Symposiums from 1999-2002, was the ASFMRA representative of TAFAC (The Appraisal Foundation Advisory Committee), the chair of ECAFS for four years (Education Committee of the Appraisal Foundation Sponsors) and served three years as a Trustee at Large of the Appraisal Foundation in Washington, DC.
Jerald “Jerry” E. Kjerstad, ARA, has been involved in the rural real estate profession since graduating from South Dakota State University in 1964. He is the owner of Kjerstad Realty, Inc. and specializes in appraising rural properties. Most of the appraisal assignments are complex or involve complex properties for a variety of purposes.
After graduating from South Dakota State University with a degree in Agriculture and Business, he worked as a loan officer and appraiser with the FLBA and PCA of Chadron, Nebraska. In 1967 he joined the appraisal review staff of the Farm Credit Administration in Spokane, Washington. He later moved to Washington, DC to become involved in reviewing appraisals and conducting industry studies in 50 states. In 1974, he became the Assistant Vice President and Chief of Appraisals for the FLB of Omaha, Nebraska and later Vice President of Credit Standards. In 1981, he left the FLB to organize a consulting business for the Omaha Bank of Cooperatives. The consulting services included business evaluations and appraisals of large grain handling facilities, feedlots, confinement hog and poultry operations, and other agricultural related business.
After 20 years with the Farm Credit System, Jerry returned to his farming and ranching interest near Wall, South Dakota. At that time, he organized an appraisal and real estate office. The business was moved to Piedmont, located in the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
Mr. Kjerstad earned his ARA designation from the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA) in 1992. He is one of the developers of the Highest and Best Use (A-29) course; Chair of the Young Professionals Committee (1995-1997); and Chair of the Membership Recruitment/Retention Committee (1997-1999). He is the District Chair of the District Experience Review Committee (1994-current) and the Co-Chair of the Government Relations Committee (1999-2002). He serves on the UAAR Ad Hoc Committee and is a Certified Instructor for the ASFMRA.
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