Crop Farming’s Management Conundrum
Gregory Duerksen President, Kincannon & Reed CROP FARMING’S MANAGEMENT CONUNDRUM As we work with our crop sector investor clients around the world, we hear a common lament: there is a mismatch between the old management and labor needs of crop farming versus the current and future leadership and talent ne
Read moreAustralian Rapeseed Exporters Exploit Canadian Hiccups
According to the International Grain Council, Canada’s exports of canola have fallen 19% to 3.2 million tons since August after record crops of both rapeseed and wheat have clogged the country’s rail system. In some cases vessels are having to wait off of Vancouver for 30 days before being loaded and some growers are findi
Read moreNCREIF Farmland Property Index
The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) recently released the latest Farmland Property Index (the Index), describing the investment performance of 543 agricultural properties in the United States over the year ending December 31st 2012. The total value of the properties in the Index was $3.55 tril
Read moreNCREIF Farmland Property Index
The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) recently released the latest Farmland Property Index (the Index), describing the investment performance of 543 agricultural properties in the United States over the year ending December 31st 2012. The total value of the properties in the Index was $3.55 tril
Read moreAlternative Emerging Investor Launches This Month
Alternative Emerging Investor, launching this month, will be the first publication to focus exclusively on alternative asset class investments in emerging and frontier markets, which many global investment experts expect to generate the best risk-adjusted returns in the short and long term. The bimonthly magazine will cover all alternati
Read moreVitamin Z
In 2012, average cattle weights increased by approximately 19 pounds per head, or 2% over 2011 weights. This increase was significant for the cattle industry when you consider that for the previous five years cattle weights had been flat, domestic consumption had fallen by 8% between 2002 and 2011, and 20% of feedlots had closed. The
Read moreChina’s $2 Billion Rice Investment
The Chinese plantation company Liaoning Wufeng Agricultural will sign on with Malaysian Amarak Group and local company Tri Indah Mandiri to establish a $2 billion rice plantation and integrated processing project by November in an attempt to tap into Indonesia’s growing market. Wufeng will be the majority financer of the plan with
Read morePrecision Agriculture
Precision agriculture is a farm management concept that focuses on optimizing returns on inputs using imagery, information technology and geospatial tools such as global positioning systems and geographic information systems (GPS and GIS respectively). Use of these technologies has the potential to detect disease in a rapid
Read moreHot Commodities
You can always tell what asset is valued most in a society at any given time by what is stolen. How many of you out there remember watching old movies about the Wild West and seeing the cattle rustling scenes? Waiting for darkness, the gang of outlaws would quietly approach a herd of cattle and stealthily divide some an
Read moreU.S. Winter Wheat – The Drought Is Still Going Strong
After the onslaught this year of the worst drought in 56 years, U.S. corn and soybean harvests are complete for 2012. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) total corn harvested for 2012 was 10.725 billion bushels – 13.2% less than 2011 which saw a total harvest of 12.358 billion bushels. Average corn yield
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