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…
Category: Farmland
Farmland – A Hedge against Inflation
Touch the Soil News #1828 (Feature Photo – Almond Orchard – CCA 2.5 Generic, Nissan Lev-Ran Pikiwiki Israel) One of the companies we like to follow is Gladstone Land. Gladstone is a Wall Street company that buys and owns farmland on behalf of its investors. The company presently owns 164 farms in 15 states valued…
Are Retirement Savings Pushing Farmland Prices off the Charts?
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…
Update on Farmland and its Market Values
Positive Future News #924 (Feature Photo – Strawberry Field – CCA SA 4.0 International) According to the USDA, of the 895 million acres of farmland in America, approximately 315 million acres are in crops, and 580 million acres in are in pasture. The USDA’s Land Values 2021 Summary shows that farmland for crops increased from…
Where has All the Farmland Gone? Long Time Passing.
Investor Owned Farmland
Positive Future News #910 (Feature Photo – Growing Corn – GNU Free Documentation) The non-profit news portal called Farmlandgrab.org., brings us the story of farmland acquired not by farmers, but by investors foreign and domestic. One organization, The Land Matrix Initiative, reports that since 2000, roughly 82 million acres of farmland have been acquired by…
Farmland LP – Changing Farms to Organic
Positive Future News #908 (Feature Photo – Organic Produce – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Elina Mark) Farmland LP is an interesting business model. They buy farmland, transition the land to organics and upgrade all other aspects of the farm. Farmland LP then oversees the production while selecting the farmers that will grow the crops. Farmland…
Pension Fund Manages Over 2 Million Acres of Farmland
Where do five million U.S. college faculty and staff put their retirement savings? With the TIAA, otherwise known as Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America-College Retirement Equities Fund. The TIAA manages over $1.3 trillion in assets which includes 2 million acres of farmland. The TIAA is the world’s largest farmland manager. The problem is…