Mean reversion can at times be nasty. As farmland prices have been rising for most of the previous 20 years, a downtrend is now emerging. What is odd in the supply and demand continuum is that as farmers enjoy bumper crops they are at some of the most financially depressed times in the group’s history. In this environment of falling land values and farmer hardships, rents charged to farmers have held steady and a credit crunch is compounding problems. With bumper crop depressing prices farmers caught in financial pickle Several years ago during the commodity boom, American farmers expanded production…
With Farmland Prices Tanking, Another Bailout Could Be On The Horizon
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.