This month’s Barclays commodity report contained the following interesting graph. It shows how the sectors of energy, agriculture, livestock, industrial and precious metals in exchange-traded products funds have changed since the first of this year. The title of the report was also interesting: The Commodity Refiner. From an age of shortage to an era of [...]
Winter field. Larimer County Colorado. Yesterday. Below, is a selection of recent agriculture-related news. There has been such a frenzy of investors seeking to invest in all things farming-related in the past decade, some of them simply puppy-dog followers of Jim Rogers. I think that anyone who has operated a farm or knows the business [...]
With farmland prices escalating rapidly in recent years, rental rates have also been rising, and since half of Iowa and other Midwestern area farmlands are rented, a common and difficult question to answer is how much to charge for cropland rent. Of late, we have seen a rapid rise in the price of farmland, input [...]
