Market Commentary

Read about 2 key investment strategies for retail investors to access and profit from agricultural investment. Read Full Article here.

Read about 2 key investment strategies for retail investors to access and profit from Forestry investment. Read Full Article here.

Farmland values in the UK continued to rise in the first quarter of 2010 and even outperformed gold, according to a new report.

The average rise in value for an acre of grade three arable land during the first quarter was 1%, below that of inflation, but it is expected to comfortably outstrip inflation by the end of the year with annual growth of 5 to 6%, says the newly published Farmland Value Survey report from Savills. Read Full Article here.

Investing in Farm Land could provide smaller investors wishing to diversify their portfolios with an inflation beating, income producing asset. In this article I will cover 10 of the key fundamentals supporting farm land investment in the UK, and why investors are set to profit from investing in farm land over the next ten years. Read Full Article Here

an interesting video detailing viewpoints from Farmers and Academics on supply and demand of UK Farm Land assets. View Video Here

Investing in Farm land is considered a safe bet by many, and an effective inflation hedge by others, but what is it that has been driving the value of UK Farm Land up for the last 15 Years? Read Full Article Here

With farmland investment firmly on the radar of investors, from Sovereign Wealth Funds to small Private Investors, it is absolutely key to understand the fundamental limits to increasing the amount of global agricultural land, a factor that is limiting supply and making the arable land that we do have infinitely more valuable as time passes. Read Full Article Here

Successful farmland investment is in some respects tied in with food prices as higher food prices push up the value of the farm land that produces the raw product for us to consume. Variance in the demand for food commodities is low which means that consumers absorb higher food prices (are prepared to pay a little more when the price of food rises) and in turn make sacrifices in other areas of expenditure. Read Full Article Here

Investing in farmland provides investors with a high level of security for their capital, coupled with an exceptionally low risk profile, and many investors, both private and institutional consider farmland investment to be a safe haven for their capital, effetively providing an excellent method of capital preservation during more volatile economic times. Read Full Article Here

Investing in farmland is one way to build a stable income. Most other commidity based investment strategies such as gold, mining, oil or gas do not produce an income for the investor outside of any dividends earned through equity investments, and this strategy simply exposes the investor to the volatility of the stock market and defeats the object of an inflation hedge. Read Full Article Here

Farmland investment delivers high total returns. Farmland investment captures both operating and capital returns through a combination of rental income and appreciation in the value of the asset. On a historic basis total returns from farmland have repeatedly outperformed.... Read Full Article Here

DGC Business Consulting and our Partners' operate an opportunistic investment style allowing us to operate in diverse geographical regions and therefore in a diverses selection of assets. We continually review internal investment policy as market circumstances develop and new opportunities to acquire good asset present themselves... Read Full Article Here

At DGC Business Consulting Ltd, we help our private clients to invest in farm land and real estate, utilising an opportunistic investment style allows us to target areas of opportunity and acquire the best assets at the right time, creating income and growth within a diverse investment portfolio. ... Read Full Article Here