There was a  piece in the Wall Street Journal recently about how many farms are getting much larger and are leveraging their size. The highlights are that larger operations “use machinery and technology more efficiently, get better prices on bulk Read more…

While this blog is about investing in farmland, the aim is to present all the pros and cons fairly. As we have detailed before, one of the benefits from investing in farmland that is often overstated is the diversification benefit of Read more…

Last week’s post about infrastructure talked about the greatest competitive advantage that US farms have when competing globally. Farmers in the US are often though to be in favor of free trade because their corn and soybean farms are very competitive Read more…

US farmers, as a whole, are thought to strongly support free trade. That is likely because the US is a powerhouse when it comes to exporting agriculture products. It is often cited that US farmers have a competitive advantage due Read more…

Ellen Ellison, who runs the University of Illinois Investment Office was recently interviewed on the Capital Allocators Podcast, and she had some pretty interesting things to say about the endowment’s investment in agriculture and farmland. First of all, unique to Read more…

There was an interesting article on bloomberg.com about the plastic coverings that farmers use in China, which are less durable than those used in other parts of the world. The article implies that pieces of the plastic are getting into the Read more…

What return should one expect when investing in farmland? Well, it obviously depends on the where, what, and how. But as an asset class in general there are a few considerations. One of them is how fast the market for Read more…

In 2013 Martijn Cremers published a paper called The Performance of Direct Investments in Real Assets: Natural Resources, Infrastructure and Commercial Real Estate. The paper analysed the benefits of owning a number of different investments and compared them to the common Read more…

A couple of months ago Tim Farris from LandFund Partners gave a presentation about farmland investing to the CFA institute. The hour long video is a background about investing in farmland, more from a macro perspective. The presenter notes that Read more…

We have talked before about the REIT option when investing in farmland. Additionally, we wrote about being able to see the value of your investment daily is often tough psychologically. The main benefits is that it is a very hands-off Read more…