Hydroponics can rapidly help serve unmet demands for fresh organic vegetables, grown close to their market. Though limited by volume, growing food in hydroponic greenhouses has many advantages. Because the greenhouse's temperature and inputs can be precisely controlled, plants grow faster and face fewer diseases than their counter-parts outside in soil. A closed-loop irrigation system results in major water savings and uses less fertilizer, while not introducing pollutants into groundwater and soil. These greenhouses can be adapted to many different crops, and facilitate ease of rotation, which enable the farmers to more quickly react to changing consumer demand. Finally, growing hydroponic vegetables closer to consumers will help reverse the trend of foreign produce imports and transporting food across the oceans.
Read moreTop 5 Agriculture Investments to Watch in 2020
We expect 2020 to be another exciting and dynamic year for investments in production agriculture. One of the ways to understand momentum behind agriculture investment is to examine consumer food preferences. According to Nielson’s recent “How America Will Eat” report, sales growth during the last year for fresh foods has increased $4.6 billion, organics is up more than $925 million, and plant-based foods has grown to $982 million. Social and health conscious younger generations are increasingly concerned with all aspects of the food they eat to include how, where, and by whom it is grown. Based on these developments, we’ve developed the top five investment trends to watch in 2020.
Read more5 Agriculture Investing Trends to Watch in 2019
Agriculture produces the world’s food, fuel and fiber and is rapidly being impacted by technology, regulation, and changing consumer preferences. As the industry evolves to feed an ever-growing global population, here are some investment trends to watch in 2019.
Read moreThe Top 10 Investment Trends in Agriculture
The huge variety of crop choices can be overwhelming to investors new to the agriculture asset class. An option for choosing potentially profitable investments is to follow society’s food trends. Many Americans these days are heavily dedicated to eating clean, local, organic foods. Trending diets and popular foods are raising the value of these crops to farmland owners and investors.
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