By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Acres was created as a platform to support a more transparent and efficient land market by providing users with the information needed to make confident decisions about buying, listing, or farmland investment transactions by combining weekly market intelligence, parcel-level data, and research tools on a single platform for web […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Although farmland is a fairly new asset class – not playing a role in institutional asset allocation strategies in any major way prior to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 – market conditions, global socio-economic and political developments, and the inherent risk-return benefits associated with farmland, among others, have […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media After three years of record appreciation with the farmland asset class surpassing a total value of $4 trillion, the third annual National Land Values report released by Peoples Company in April 2023 predicted a leveling out of farmland values. As prices and interest rates rapidly rose, there was an […]
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 addition to positive performance during inflationary periods. In today’s unsettled and highly dynamic […]
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 footprint, the company’s core business model centers on brokering large scale, […]
By Gustavo Llona, Partner and CEO, Frontal Trust Agribusiness Food security has become even more challenging in recent times, where we have witnessed and experienced how vulnerable food production and supply chains may be, especially when impacted by trade conflicts, pandemics, “special military operations”, or other events. This situation is forcing countries and companies to reassess […]
By Weiyi Zhang, Ph.D., Senior Agricultural Economist, Manulife Investment Management A blast from the past—or is it? — Inflationary pressures are expected to weigh on farmers’ financial profitability, but commodity prices remain at historically high levels. — Farmland can demonstrate stable and resilient return performance through periods of differing economic cycles. — The changing interest-rate […]
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners LLC The backdrop for this case study is an understanding of the past and present elements of agriculture in many of the countries in sub Saharan Africa. This region offers agricultural opportunities with scale and favorable economics, which have become more difficult to find in other parts of the […]
By Jeremy Stroud, Analyst, Bonnefield Financial, Marcus Mitchell, Chief Investment Officer, Bonnefield Financial The topic of climate change has never seemed more prevalent, with 2019 witnessing a continued trend of climate disasters. From wildfires in California, Brazil, and Australia, to droughts in Europe, and floods in the United States, these are only some of the […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI Media The global food and agriculture sector is a multi-trillion dollar industry with responsibility to feed an expected global population of 11 billion people by the turn of the century. To address the challenges of producing increasing quantities of food and feed in the face of decreasing availability of arable […]
