Seasons Newsletter Archives
Fall 2011 Seasons Newsletter
Agriculture's Bright Future - Become A Farmer! Seriously, it’s the best
job in the 21st century. So read the headline of an article in the July 11 issue of
Time. Best-selling author and commodities
bull Jim Rogers recently reiterated that
agriculture is in a “supercycle” that will last
at least 20 more years, and that agriculture
is fundamentally positioned similar to gold and silver more than.…
Summer 2011 Seasons Newsletter
MGW Launches Auction Division - Farmland values have risen steadily since 1987 but have shot up in recent years, doubling in the past 10 years in many Corn Belt states. They rose even faster in the last half of 2010. “Propelled by rising commodity prices, farmland values in the Chicago Federal Reserve district jumped 10% in the third quarter of 2010 versus a year earlier,” reports David Oppedahl, business economist at the Chicago Fed…
Spring 2011 Seasons Newsletter
It’s a Farmers’ Market - Farmland values have risen steadily since 1987 but have shot up in recent years, doubling in the past 10 years in many Corn Belt states. They rose even faster in the last half of 2010. “Propelled by rising commodity prices, farmland values in the Chicago Federal Reserve district jumped 10% in the third quarter of 2010 versus a year earlier,” reports David Oppedahl, business economist at the Chicago Fed…
Winter 2010 Seasons Newsletter
What Next for the Economy? - When the U.S. Federal Reserve announced in November that it will buy $600 billion of U.S. Treasuries through June on top of an earlier round of similar purchases, it set off a volley of op-ed articles and stirred up markets. The goals of the record stimulus move are to reduce unemployment and economic stagnation. The economic malaise that started with the subprime mortgage implosion in the summer of 2007 is more virulent than past episodes…
Fall 2010 Seasons Newsletter
Enhancing Quality for Mutual Prosperity -American agriculture is expected to go through something of an extreme makeover in the next decade. Forty-two percent of farmers responding to an Iowa State University poll expect to retire in the next five years. Of those farms, only 56% have identified their successor. Of course, some farms will stay in the family. On many, however, it will mean a more open buying opportunity for neighbors or investors…
Summer 2010 Seasons Newsletter
A Bright Future For Farmland - Strong demand lies ahead for agricultural products, given the multiplier effect of population growth and economic growth. Add increased use of bio fuels and it’s little wonder that some estimate we’ll need another 123 to 198 million acres of cropland to feed, fuel and clothe the world by 2050—in addition to improved productivity...
Spring 2010 Seasons Newsletter
Do Biotech Crops Make Crop Disasters Obsolete? - By 2050, the Earth will be home to 9.2 billion people versus the current 6.8 billion. At current production levels, we’d need an additional 250 million acres of cropland to feed the population—about equal to all the cropped acres in the United States. At the same time, per-capita arable land is shrinking and the growing population will increasingly claim water currently used by agriculture…
Summer 2009 Seasons Newsletter
Investors and farmers are buying land for good returns and protection from inflation - Demand for land is surging as buyers re-enter the market. This new farmland demand is coming from several sources, replacing exchange sales which dominated our region from 1996 through 2006. Prices per acre in northern and central Illinois are the same, or very near, the levels they were last fall...
