The Ultimate Hard Asset: American Farmland and The 300-Year Water Supply Hidden Underneath It | Chris Morris LandFund Partners

About this episode

Max Wiethe interviews Chris Morris about the value of U.S. row crop farmland as a hard asset and its implications for investment.

Learn more about Teucrium’s Soybean ETF (SOYB) here: https://teucrium.com/soyb In this episode of Other People's Money, Max sits down with Chris Morris, President of LandFund Partners, to explore why they believe U.S. row crop farmland is the ultimate hard asset. Chris details how farmland performed as a portfolio diversifier during the Great Financial Crisis and explains why the relative value compared to other regions and essentially free access to 300-years of groundwater them has focusing on the U.S. Mid-South region. He highlights global water scarcity, food security, and inflation as macro drivers for this farmland, but he also argues that rising values and yields from technological improvements and increased demand for non-farming purposes like solar power are how they have delivered S&P 500 beating net returns since 2021. LandFund Partners website: https://www.landfundpartners.com/ Follow LandFund Partners on X: https://x.com/LandFundLP Follow Max on X: https://x.com/maxwiethe Follow Other People’s Money on: Apple Podcast https://bit.ly/4e7QJ1M Spotify https://bit.ly/3Yhaazi YouTube https://bit.ly/3C63VXR X https://x.com/opmpod Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:40 Teucrium…

People in this episode

Host: Max Wiethe

Guest: Chris Morris

Topics covered

• farmland investment
• portfolio diversification
• water scarcity
• food security
• technological improvements
• economic trends

Keywords

• farmland
• investment
• water supply
• portfolio diversification
• economic trends
• S&P 500
• returns
• agriculture
• solar power

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: LandFund Partners

Products: Teucrium’s Soybean ETF

Places: U.S. Mid-South, Great Financial Crisis, global water scarcity, food security, inflation, solar power

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