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Starting a conversation about investing in local and organic food and farm

I've thought for awhile now that investing in local and organic food and farm was the opposite of the old line, "put your money where your mouth is". There's money, there's opportunity but there's not enough talk that tells the investor what they should even be aware of. So to get the conversation going, I asked my compadres in the space to contribute to a white paper/conversation starter doc to get the conversation going. And here it is

Download Starting a converstaion about investing in local organic farm and food March 17 2011

It's also great timing because I'm moderating a panel today at Financing Farm to Fork on Funding Opportunties. Should be a chance for the conversation to move forward

 

Warren Buffet on Farmland/ Is Farmland now the Uber Inflation Hedge?

Warren Buffet has been talking about farmland and saying pretty good things about it.

http://www.gurufocus.com/news.php?id=124520

The key takeaway is his noting that 7 dollar corn might be here to stay, and that if the dollar falls, then things priced in the dollar must rise. Of course, farmland has always been a safe and traditional place to invest in times of inflation, but what I think is new is that given increasing global demand for grain, thin supplies and a weakening dollar, farmland could well be the preferred inflation hedge. So now as I've said farmland is the uber bond fund that you could grow food on if you had to; and get your money out of, and get some cash return from. Anybody got a better alternative to that?  Hang on to your hats kids, it's going to be a wild ride....