Trade Flows to Cash Flows: Directing Investments in Ag Infrastructure Toward a Steady Stream of Returns
As a microcosm of the industry, Iowa offers the perfect example of the unpredictable nature of agriculture. Year after year, this state leads the world in corn production (it produced 2.4 billion bushels, or 17% of the entire U.S. crop, in 2014). Despite its abundant harvests, however, in some years it is still a net importer of corn. Any hicc
Read moreSaskatchewan Farmland Ownership Hangs in Balance (Premium Content)
By Gerelyn Terzo Saskatchewan farmland ownership has reached a crossroads. Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture Lyle Stewart is currently reviewing The Saskatchewan Farm Security Act to determine the future role of foreigners and institutional investors including Canadian pensions in owning provincial farmland. A temporary ban is being enfo
Read moreAdvantage Capital Adopts Selective Strategy for Maiden Agri Fund (Premium Content)
By Gerelyn Terzo Advantage Capital Partners, with dual headquarters in St. Louis, Mo. and New Orleans, La., recently reached oversubscribed status with $154.5 million for Advantage Capital Argibusiness Partners, LP, the firm’s maiden agriculture fund, in a single round of financing. Advantage Capital targeted $150 million. &n
Read moreGetting more out of the same amount of land: cattle and forestry as a sustainable investment
By Katalin Solymosi, Inter-American Development Bank As the global agricultural community gathers this week in New York for the Global AgInvesting conference to explore investment opportunities, strategies for reducing risks through diversified agricultural portfolios is high on the agenda. As the sector is facing t
Read morePrecision Agriculture: Boots & Technology Still Needed on the Ground
By Brian Milne, Hortau Earlier this year, NASA jumped into – get this – the precision agriculture game when it launched a soil moisture monitoring satellite out of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite, otherwise known as Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), was initially launched to track moisture in
Read moreGladstone Land REIT Finds Stability, Profits in Produce
By Dan Emerson In 2013, Gladstone Land Corp. (NASDAQ: LAND) launched as the country’s first-ever publicly-traded company focused on investing in U.S. farmland. Gladstone leases its farms to medium-sized, independent farmers and larger, corporate farming operations, which grow annual row crops, such as certain types of berries,
Read moreChanging Macro Conditions and Their Potential Impact on Agriculture
David Gray Special Advisor Altima Partners LLP From talk of ‘the end of the commodities’ bear market’ in 2007 and early 2008, we are now confronted by a market where corn trades at or below average cost of production in the US and soy trades well below the level needed to ju
Read moreCapturing investment returns in Australian Agriculture
Michael Blakeney Investment Director, BSWP Blue Sky Alternative Investments Australian agriculture continues to be an attractive investment proposition for institutional investors. Australia’s geographic and reputational advantage in supplying growing global markets with premium, rel
Read moreSweetening Investor Returns: Why Investing in Cacao Plantations Makes Sense
Bill Randall Managing Director Pacific Agri-Capital The cacao industry is in crisis. Soaring demand from emerging market consumers and western appetites for darker chocolate coupled with a structural decline in West African production, where 70% of cacao is produced, have driven cacao pric
Read moreRick Rule: It’s Time For Change in California’s Water Policy
By Garrett Baldwin In March, HBO Real Time host Bill Maher pitched solutions to his home state’s ongoing water crisis. First, he proposed that someone build a cross-country water pipeline to pump excess snow from Boston into the water-starved Los Angeles area. Then, he suggested the U.S. convert the Keystone Pipelin
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