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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. | 