A new land rush is underway, based on enormous pension funds that expect to lockup land ownership for decades
In the November 2013 Country Guide article “Selling Out Farming,” I wrote about the growing Demand by private investors and speculators for farmland. However, the impact private investors have on land values, rural society and farming as we know it today will be minor compared to the most recent group of buyers into the farmland market: pension funds.
Read The Full Article by Gerald Pilger (published by country-guide.ca)…