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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.
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Farmland Value
In the U.S., farm real estate values have risen in nominal and real terms over time. For example, from 1940-2006 farm real estate appreciated at 6.4% annually, which exceeded the 4.1% annual inflation rate.