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Menace on the Menu: The Financialisation of Farmland and the War on Food and Farming
Menace on the Menu: The Financialisation of Farmland and the War on Food and Farming Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe. In the UK, an influx of investment from pension funds and private wealth contributed to a doubling of farmland prices from 2010-2015. Land prices in the US agricultural […]
The Biden administration will pay farmers more money not to farm
The Biden administration will pay farmers more money not to farm iStock/Warren_Price The goal is to add 4 million acres of farmland to the Conservation Reserve Program, which takes land out of production to blunt agriculture’s environmental impact. The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it would expand a program that pays farmers to leave […]
Want To Invest In Farmland? Here’s How
Want To Invest In Farmland? Here’s How There are now more options than ever (without having farm the land yourself!) Farmland is a “holy grail” asset class for many investors. It’s tangible, produces income, and has inherent underlying value — making it a great inflation hedge. It’s supply constrained. Mother Nature isn’t making any more […]
Saving Farmland, Supporting Young Farmers
Saving Farmland, Supporting Young Farmers It’s a bit odd that land reform is barely mentioned in most progressive agendas. Maybe that’s because it is seen as challenging the presumed virtues of private property and capitalist markets. Yet secure access and tenure to land is essential for achieving so many progressive goals, from building new sorts […]
Farms for the Future: 20 Organizations Protecting Farmland
Farms for the Future: 20 Organizations Protecting Farmland In the United States, over 2,000 acres of agricultural land are sold every day for housing or commercial development, according to the American Farmland Trust. This has especially affected Black farmers who, since 1920, have seen nearly a 90 percent decline in land ownership, according to the U.S. Census. Over the past […]
The Future Of Better FarmingSustainable practices + smart technology = thriving soils
The Future Of Better FarmingSustainable practices + smart technology = thriving soils While it’s *soooo* tempting to write about the stomach-churning drop/spike/dive thrill ride the financial markets have embarked on after this week’s Federal Reserve rate cut, I will resist and instead direct your attention to a topic much more important to our future. Here […]
California Turns To Farming Photons As Water Woes Result In Central Valley Solar Fields
California Turns To Farming Photons As Water Woes Result In Central Valley Solar Fields California’s Central Valley is going green(er). Thanks to constrained water supplies and the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) which requires over 500,000 acres be taken out of production, some of the Golden State’s more than 77,000 farms are embarking on ambitious solar projects, according to the LA Times. […]
Vanishing open spaces: population growth and sprawl in America
Vanishing open spaces: population growth and sprawl in America Before the fossil fuel age began, about 80 to 90% of people farmed to make a living. Since the end of the oil age will send us back to the past, farmland and farmers will once again comprise the greatest numbers of people. So it’s alarming […]
The Company Store
The Company Store Leaves almost nothing to live on In the song Sixteen Tons by Merle Travis (and made famous by Tennessee Ernie Ford), the idea of the ‘company store’ referred to a system of debt bondage that effectively trapped workers within an unfair system designed to harvest all of their labor at very low cost. You […]
Saving Farmland for Future Generations
Saving Farmland for Future Generations Image courtesy of Beccy Strong Imagine a farm where you are welcome to walk in its fields. You hear birds singing and see wildflowers blooming. The cows in the meadows are grazing and the children in farm school are learning-by-doing, collecting eggs from free-ranging chickens and picking fruit from orchard […]
California Farmland To Plunge “20% Or More” As Returns Sink To Lowest Level Since 1992
California Farmland To Plunge “20% Or More” As Returns Sink To Lowest Level Since 1992 Last August we questioned whether California farmland was overvalued by $70 billion (see our aptly named post: “Is California Farmland Overvalued By $70 Billion?“). Our reasoning was fairly simple, as we argued such a draconian outcome was the inevitable result […]
Farmland prices up 10% last year as property boom spreads to agriculture
Farmland prices up 10% last year as property boom spreads to agriculture All provinces saw increases, but not as much as in previous years The price of farmland increased by more than 10 per cent, on average, last year. (Parwiz/Reuters) The average price of farmland across Canada increased 10.1 per cent last year as low […]
Saudi Arabia is Buying Up American Farmland to Export Agricultural Products Back Home
Saudi Arabia is Buying Up American Farmland to Export Agricultural Products Back Home Just what we need, cornfield crucifixions. Seriously though, this is very troubling. The Saudis are explicitly conserving their own resources at home, while exploiting land and water supplies here in America. CNBC reports: Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries are scooping up farmland in […]
Warnings Australia in rural financial crisis as farmers look to take on ANZ – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Warnings Australia in rural financial crisis as farmers look to take on ANZ – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). There is growing concern Australia is in the grip of a rural financial crisis as banks foreclose on hundreds of properties and force farmers off the land but some are vowing to fight back. Rural lender […]
