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Appreciation returns were stronger in the US South, possibly on indications of an improved US housing market.

As agricultural investment in emerging markets grows, Mark Eckstein, environment and social director at development finance institution CDC, explains why it is vital to plan around ESG issues and how investors should go about it.

The partnership includes the Interior Department, the state of California, non-profits and private landowners and will yield a minimum investment of $210 million by all partners.

The age-old method of valuing farming properties based on comparisons with neighbouring sales can help managers find undervalued acquisition opportunities, investment managers argued.

Stafford Capital Partners closed its $484m timberland fund of funds at the end of May. Partner Thomas Goodrich talks about the maturation of timberland as an asset class and why inefficiences in the sector make secondaries a good opportunity.

Many corporate and institutional investments into Australian agriculture have not performed well compared to the returns achieved by the family farm, argues David Cornish, principal at Cornish Consultancy.

The Australian beef cattle fund manager announced the lending facility during the same week as Beef Australia 2015, the industry event held in Rockhampton, Queensland, where speakers pointed to continued beef price hikes.

Illinois farmland prices will decline between 1 percent and 5 percent in 2015 according to nearly 50 percent of respondents to a survey conducted by The Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.

The longer-term impact of low oil prices on the agriculture sector remains the subject of much speculation, writes Andrew Wood, senior associate at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright.