Touch the Soil News #2062 (photo – U.S. Farmland – Courtesy of the USDA, Public Domain) While farmer’s farm, and people in other occupations work, it is inevitable that millions of people are working to build investments for retirement. Every month, billions of dollars that were circulating through wages, are taken out of that loop…
Touch the Soil News #2034 (photo – Healthy Farmland Soils) (Courtesy of USDA Public Domain) Successful Farming News Portal brings an insightful story about farmland values that even bankers are wincing over. When the price of farmland reaches a certain threshold, the revenue from crops can no longer pay the cost plus its financing costs. …
Touch the Soil News #2024 (photo Cattle and horses in stockyards, Australia) (Cgoodwin, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported) Australian Financial Review brings the story of one of the world’s largest land purchases. The buyers are represented by one of Canada’s largest fund managers on behalf of a group of institutional investors. The important thing to…
Touch the Soil News #1982 (Photo – California Farmland – Carol Highsmith, Public Domian) Farmland Grab news portal brings a story about Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland. Come to find out, China owns very little U.S. farmland. The largest foreign owner of farmland in the U.S. turns out to be Canada at 12.8 million acres…
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Touch the Soil News #1873 (Feature Photo – Grain Harvest – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, Andrew Smith) Years ago, (mid-90s) there was a big push under the umbrella of the World Trade Organization to have nations harmonize laws for cross-border trade and foreign businesses setting up shop anywhere. No, almost 30 years later with global…
Touch the Soil News #1848 (Feature Photo – Sold Farmland – CCA SA 2.0 Christine Johnstone) Successful Farming Magazine brings us an insightful story about how farmland values continue strong into 2023. The video below highlights just how high prices can go. One wonders, Can farmer can really farm his/her way out of $30,000…
Positive Future News #946 (Feature Photo – Vineyards – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Brocken Inaglory) It’s no secret that farmland is becoming a preferred venue for investment. This means investors are competing with farmers for ownership of farmland. In the reverse, investors may buy farmland in order to free up equity for the farmer for…
Positive Future News #935 (Feature Photo – Farmland – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, Andrew Smith) The non-profit called Grain, is sponsoring a webinar on what they call Pension Fund Capitalism. The webinar is about a simple concept. Monies set aside around the world for pension plans, is estimated to be $52 trillion. Now, money from…
Touch the Soil News #1797 (Feature Photo Worrall Creek Aggregation – Courtesy of JLL Agribusiness) Queensland Country Life news, brings us the unusual story of the coming sale of a one of Australia’s largest farms – 66,000 acres. Called the Worral Creek Aggregation, the farm is in Australia, where few farms have adequate water. This…
