Investment Overview

Owning farmland has been a successful strategy for thousands of years, providing real income in normal times, windfall profits during building booms, and the security of food and shelter in bad times.

As an investment, farmland has historically delivered attractive, diversified, secure, inflation-hedged returns with both current cash flow and long term capital appreciation.

Historical Farmland Total Return

Farmland averaged 11.9% total annual return between 1970 and 2000, with 6.4% from appreciation and 5.5% from operating income.