The Opportunities and Challenges of International Trade in Agriculture
Contributed content from Weiyi Zhang, Ph.D., Senior Agricultural Economist, Manulife Investment Global agricultural production has benefited from expanded international trade for more than two decades. Robust trade networks have connected the demand and supply of a plethora of agricultural products across international borders. Global effo
Read moreOp Ed: Great Expectations – Revisiting the Reset in Ag
Contributed by Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners In March of this year, I wrote an article (www.globalaginvesting.com/op-ed-is-a-resetting-underway-in-agriculture), in which I opined that certain conditions were pointing towards adjustments from the highly prosperous conditions of the last three years. Having lived through various agricul
Read more15 Minutes With… Kaitlin Fitzgerald, VP of Sustainability at Sound Agriculture
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Women in Agribusiness Media Kaitlin Fitzgerald is vice president of sustainability for Sound Agriculture, a startup on a mission to create crop inputs and traits that lead to more sustainable, healthier, and tastier food. With headquarters in Emeryville, California, the company has 140+ employees across the
Read moreAn Update on FarmTogether’s Sustainable Farmland Fund – Diversified Access to a Resilient Asset
Contributed by FarmTogether The current economic environment highlights why now is an attractive time to diversify into assets with historically strong risk-adjusted return profiles. Meanwhile, as the world grapples with the pressing challenges of food security, the demand for innovative financial solutions in agriculture has never been mo
Read moreFarmland’s Inflation-hedging Characteristics: A Comprehensive Analysis of Different Crop Types’ Responses to an Inflationary Environment
Contributed content from Weiyi Zhang, Ph.D., Senior Agricultural Economist, Manulife Investment Management Farmland is often considered to be a real asset class that provides investors with attractive risk-adjusted returns, portfolio diversification benefits, and access to natural resources with sustainable management practices in addi
Read moreHighlight: Third Annual Peoples Company’s National Land Values Report
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It all starts with land - Peoples Company Peoples Company is one of the U.S.’s leading land brokerage, management, appraisal, energy management, crop insurance, and capital markets providers. Having established strong relationships through the industry with a coast-to-coast footprin
Read moreSpotlight: Farmland: A Historically Stable Asset During Uncertain Times – a New Study Released by FarmTogether
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Farmland investment manager FarmTogether began in 2017 with a straightforward mission - to democratize farmland investing. Historical data shows that over the past five decades, ROI on farmland investments have outperformed the CPI by 7.74 percent on average, while generating both a
Read moreOp Ed: Is a Resetting Underway in Agriculture?
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners In the course of a four-decade career in agriculture, I have gleaned information from a number of sources. The insights of others, along with my own experiences, have shaped my thinking about the nature of this business and its potential trends. There are a small number of articles t
Read moreOp Ed: An Updated Point of View on the Farmland Market
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners In July, 2021, I penned an article regarding the farmland market, and expressed the opinion that it reminded me in some respects of a term that was used in the 1990s by the then Chairman of the Fed, Alan Greenspan. That term was “irrational exuberance.” In the past handful of years, low interest r
Read moreInflation, Interest Rates, and Recession Risk: Farmland’s Resilience in the Face of Uncertainty
By Weiyi Zhang, Ph.D., Senior Agricultural Economist, Manulife Investment Management The financial performance of farmland and agricultural investments is driven by both market specific factors and developments in the global macroeconomic environment. The recent dramatic changes in the U.S. economy, including rising inflation and interest r
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