Farewell to my 310 acres of Saskatchewan farmland Farmers and Wall St. bankers don’t have much in common. But something they both seem to enjoy is getting down and dirty with their hoes. 😉 Farming can be difficult. Some grain farmers barley scrape by. Luckily for me it’s a lot easier investing in farms than working on them.… Read More »
Slow and Steady A reader recently asked for a farmland update. So here’s the latest. I’m collecting $8,500 a year from my tenant who is growing canola on my 310 acres of farmland. He pays me twice a year, half the total amount in the spring and the other half in the fall. Here’s the latest cheque that I deposited… Read More »
Profitable Farmland Sometimes when I run out of topics to write about for the blog I would visit the fabric store to find new material. 😀 But other times, I am inspired by visitors like you! A while ago a reader requested I do a profit and loss statement for my farmland. Great idea! So today’s post is… Read More »
This is a guest post by Peter Thompson. He is the founder of the boutique firm GreenWorld Forestry and Farmland Investments. GreenWorld concentrates on offering “real assets”, and greenworldbvi.com have been particularly popular. For a small investor with an adversity to risk it is very difficult to find investments that keep up with real inflation. By real inflation, we… Read More »
To become successful investors we have to think like burglars, because we must be constantly looking for windows of opportunity 😀 I saw an interview recently on BNN about alternative investing and how buying a farm can be a wonderful long term investment. Of course as any diligent person would do, I did some more research into this topic to… Read More »