Reaping reward from farmland

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Betting the Farm

Nice Fortune article on growing investor interest in farmland.

Warner is just one of many financiers around the world making that same bet. Over the past few years hedge fund gurus like George Soros, investment powerhouses like BlackRock, and retirement plan giants like TIAA-CREF have begun to plow money into farmland - everywhere from the Midwest to Ukraine to Brazil. Canadian private equity firm AgCapita, which raised $18 million in 2008 to invest in Saskatchewan cropland, estimates that as of the first quarter of 2009, more than $2 billion of private equity money had been raised for farmland investments globally, and another $500 million was planned.

Marc Faber on Farmland

Brief mention here.

He also recommended investments related to commodities, such as farmland, or the tourism industry.