What is Your Farmland Investment Risk Profile?

While farmland is often shown and thought of as both a good hedge against inflation and often lower risk than stocks, that data usually of returns of US farmland as a whole. If your farmland holdings are all within one region, you may have a higher risk/return profile than you might believe.

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Brett MacNeil
Corn Prices, Farm Returns, and Appreciation Rates

While doing some work for a client recently, we pulled together several charts that  have very similar patterns: Net Cash Farm Income, the rolling nearby corn futures price, and the NCREIF US Rowcrop Farmland Appreciation rate. What they tell us is that low corn prices have a surprising effect, well outside of the corn belt.

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Brett MacNeil
Dual Agency and the 10,000 hour Rule; The Rules Have Changed

Earlier this year, the National Association of Realtors reached a landmark legal settlement. “Two main changes are happening now. First, listings in local databases called multiple-listing services will no longer show whether a seller is offering to pay a buyer’s agent, or how much. Second, buyers will be required to sign agreements specifying how much their agents will be paid.

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Brett MacNeil
A Deep Dive Into Foreign Ownership of U.S. Agricultural Land

There has been a great deal of controversy about foreign ownership and investment in US Agricultural Land over the last few years, stirring up fears of foreign control of the very land that feeds us. But what are the real figures? In which states is it most prevalent and what is the status of foreign ownership restrictions in each state? Here we take a deep dive into the real numbers to provide some context

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Brett MacNeil
Crawfish & Bayous

For our second trimester Strategy & Execution Planning meetings this May our team had the pleasure to immerse ourselves in the rich lands and culture of Arkansas for strategic planning and farm tours, fried bologna sandwiches, Mosquitoes from hell, and a fire alarm for boiled peanuts.

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Brett MacNeil