For others searching the threads, few other suggestions we received from various sources on this situation:1.

I know this is a common question, I've searched BP/google/etc, listened to podcasts, webinars for the past 10 months and see the pro's/con's for either way but wanted to get advice based on my particular situation. 

We actually have started a Google Doc to identify some markets with good potential, including the ones I'm already in and looking at some potential properties in each market.

You can do this via searching the property's address on the county assessor site.

Search for recorded transactions in your farm area.

I am working on narrowing down my search area and attempting to identify good areas for investment.

You may want to use the search function for realtor and Winston Salem and see what hits you get.

Also, since I was not trying to buy a rental property I should probably just keep looking for what I was originally searching for.

in 2015 or 2016, I did a search to find out how farmland fared compared to Residential Properties during the financial crisis.

type, where to invest in Baltimore in the search section of biggerpockets, there are about 100 threads that answer this question  already.