AG2001. Welcome and Introduction | Factors Impacting Farmland Markets: Understanding the New Normal

This session will examine factors impacting farmland values including the role of interest rate markets, market volatility and depth, trade, and changing consumer preferences.  Farmland as an asset class is undergoing massive changes as it becomes normalized as an asset class.  The financial performance of farmland by type, region, management characteristics, and ownership will be examined in the context of other portfolio assets.  Evolving technologies have fundamentally changes how production systems are organized and consumer preferences are reshaping what is produced and under what types of systems.  

Learning Objectives:

• Understand risk, return, and correlation of farmland returns with a broad set of alternative asset classes.
• Understand the broad set of changing factors impacting transactional values and capitalization of farmland as an asset.