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Expert Commentary

  • Op Ed: Is a Resetting Underway in Agriculture?

    By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners In the course of a four-decade career in agriculture, I have gleaned information from a number of sources. The insights of others, along with my own experiences, have shaped my thinking about the nature of this business and its potential trends.   There are a small number of articles t

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  • Op Ed: An Updated Point of View on the Farmland Market

    By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners In July, 2021, I penned an article regarding the farmland market, and expressed the opinion that it reminded me in some respects of a term that was used in the 1990s by the then Chairman of the Fed, Alan Greenspan. That term was “irrational exuberance.” In the past handful of years, low interest r

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  • Inflation, Interest Rates, and Recession Risk: Farmland’s Resilience in the Face of Uncertainty

    By Weiyi Zhang, Ph.D., Senior Agricultural Economist, Manulife Investment Management The financial performance of farmland and agricultural investments is driven by both market specific factors and developments in the global macroeconomic environment. The recent dramatic changes in the U.S. economy, including rising inflation and interest r

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  • Fresh Fruits from the Andean Region

    By Gustavo Llona, Partner and CEO, Frontal Trust Agribusiness Food security has become even more challenging in recent times, where we have witnessed and experienced how vulnerable food production and supply chains may be, especially when impacted by trade conflicts, pandemics, “special military operations”, or other events.  This

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  • 15 Minutes With… Olympia Yarger, CEO and Founder of Goterra

    Photos courtesy of Goterra By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Standing at the forefront of the revolution of organic waste management is Olympia Yarger. A visionary in the Australian insect farming industry, in 2014 Yarger founded Goterra, which builds and deploys smart city infrastructure for food waste management. Sin

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  • Talking Land Acquisitions and Water Management with Manulife Investment Management

    By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Women in Agribusiness (WIA) Media NOTE: This interview first appeared in our sister publication, WIA Today.  Two experienced and knowledgeable professionals from Manulife Investment Management’s agriculture business—Danielle Harris, regional acquisitions manager, and Molly Thurman, water resources manag

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  • Increasing the Sustainability of Farming with AI-enabled Technology

    By Dr. Shaun Passley, Founder, ZenaTech The call for sustainable practices in the field of agriculture is not new, but it becomes more urgent with each passing year. Those who answer the call commit to tackling a complex challenge. In essence, sustainable farming demands more work be done with less energy. It requires a greater degree of pr

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  • A Transition Underway: China and Southeast Asia’s Rise in the Agrifood Biotechnology Revolution

    Contributed Content from Bits x Bites  Agriculture and food are responsible for 31 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions. With growing population and wealth, so will the demand for more and better quality food. But making more food and nutrition available doesn’t necessarily have to drive up the pressure on the environment. This is

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  • Op Ed: The Unchanging Essence of Agriculture

    By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners At this time each year (with rare exceptions), I make the trek to my family’s cemetery, located in a no-stop-light town deep in the heart of Kansas. Three generations have their final resting place there, and all of them share an agrarian heritage.   It is about a 1,000 mile round trip, and I alw

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  • Insight: Omega Ratios of Canadian Farmland

    By Stephen Johnston, Managing Partner, Veripath & Equicapita     *The content put forth by Global AgInvesting News and its parent company HighQuest Partners is intended to be used and must be used for informational purposes only. All information or other material herein is not to be construed as legal, t

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