By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Over the past 10 years, AgIS Capital has established an impressive track record of acquiring and managing high-quality, investment-grade farmland assets and, when a value proposition presents itself, related agricultural commodity processing assets. The valuable thought leadership born of such a history is now being shared by AgIS Capital […]
By S2G Ventures This is the third and final installment of a series looking back on S2G Venture’s report, Trends Shaping the Future of Food in 2023. Read Part 1 of this series, Reflections on 2023 AgTech Trends, and Part 2, “Reflections on 2023 Food and Agriculture Supply Chain Trends.” In March of 2023, we […]
New white paper from SLM Partners synthesizes the latest research and draws from their investment experience By Paul McMahon, Founder and Managing Partner, SLM Partners Regenerative agriculture is a hot topic right now. It is being embraced by policymakers, agribusinesses, asset managers and investors as the future of food and a great opportunity for investment. […]
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners One of the memories that will forever be etched in my mind from a 40-year career in agriculture was selling wheat for $1.85 per bushel in the midst of the 1980s farm crisis. Although it was apparent at the time that there was no way for even the most […]
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 agricultural cycles in my lifetime, the change in conditions was not a big surprise, […]
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 attractive absolute and risk-adjusted returns and providing a […]
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 that have […]
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, […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Women in Agribusiness (WIA) Media NOTE: This interview first appeared in our sister publication, WIA Today. Two experienced and knowledgeable professionals from Manulife Investment Management’s agriculture business—Danielle Harris, regional acquisitions manager, and Molly Thurman, water resources manager—operate literally in the field and on the farm. Manulife Investment Management is the world’s […]
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners At this time each year (with rare exceptions), I make the trek to my family’s cemetery, located in a no-stop-light town deep in the heart of Kansas. Three generations have their final resting place there, and all of them share an agrarian heritage. It is about a 1,000 mile round […]
