{"id":116319,"date":"2009-12-30T15:18:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T20:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/read-this-before-you-jump-on-the-farmland-bandwagon-and-invest-in-that-hedge-fund-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-30T15:18:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T20:18:46","slug":"read-this-before-you-jump-on-the-farmland-bandwagon-and-invest-in-that-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/116319","title":{"rendered":"Read This Before You Jump On The Farmland Bandwagon And Invest In That Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmland. Quietly it&#8217;s become a super-trendy alternative investment favored by inflation and war-fearing doomsayers. This week saw the launch of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/optima-american-farmland-hedge-fund-2009-12\">dedicated farmland hedge fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, in light of that, we thought it was timely that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascityfed.org\/home\/subwebnav.cfm?level=3&amp;theID=11276&amp;SubWeb=10658\">KC Fed<\/a> just published a report on farmland trends. It turns out that farmland has been on a four-year tear, and that while it&#8217;s cooled just a tad, prices remain close to the 2008 peak.<\/p>\n<p>Values have been helped by ethanol policy, commodity prices, and an influx of non-farm buyers. Maybe it will continue, but if you&#8217;re a new convert, you&#8217;re already a bit late to the game.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object id=\"_ds_20817893\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" name=\"_ds_20817893\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/viewer.docstoc.com\/v2\/\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"doc_id=20817893&amp;mem_id=832738&amp;doc_type=pdf&amp;fullscreen=0\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/viewer.docstoc.com\/v2\/\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<br \/><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.docstoc.com\/docs\/20817893\/MSE_0609\">MSE_0609<\/a> &#8211; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/read-this-before-you-jump-on-the-farmland-bandwagon-and-invest-in-that-hedge-fund-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/optima-american-farmland-hedge-fund-2009-12\">Details On The New Hyperinflation-Beating Farmland Hedge Fund From Optima<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jim-rogers-is-buying-farmland-2009-3\">Jim Rogers Is Buying Farmland<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/VIfYkFom2lo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmland. Quietly it&#8217;s become a super-trendy alternative investment favored by inflation and war-fearing doomsayers. This week saw the launch of a dedicated farmland hedge fund. So, in light of that, we thought it was timely that the KC Fed just published a report on farmland trends. It turns out that farmland has been on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}