Farmland
A $3.8T US asset class with a 9.8% annual record since 1992 and a first losing year in 2024. Land values, cash rents, water, foreign ownership, and the ways in.
Desk data as of 2026-09-08 · Invest Alternative radar
Farmland sub-index · accruing history
Target weight 0.6% of the IA Composite · accruing history — EODHD REIT proxies live
The guide
The guide
Investing in Farmland
A $3.8T US asset: 9.8% a year since 1992, and a first losing year in 2024.
Inside · 13 sections
The honest track record · Row crops vs permanent crops · How to own it · Tax: the 1031 edge · The IA view
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Articles
4 on farmland · free to read
Guide·
Buying Farmland Directly
Owning an acre outright is a small business: soil, a tenant, a loan and a tax return.
48 min read
Guide·
Investing in Farmland Through REITs and Funds
Two listed REITs, a few institutional funds and the platforms are the only farmland most outsiders can buy.
44 min read
Guide·
Investing in Timberland
Timberland’s real returns have fallen in each of the last three decades while institutional money kept arriving.
47 min read
Guide·
Investing in Water Rights
Water is priced, but almost never purchasable: the tradeable asset is the right to change its use.
56 min read
Recent sales and data
As of 2026-09-08
Data we track
The observations the desk collects each day, unadjusted. Change is against the prior observation, so a monthly series shows a monthly move. Each row carries the date of its last observation.
| Series | Trend | Latest | Change | Source | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasdaq Veles California Water index (NQH2O)6 obs | $566.37 | 0.00% | Nasdaq | 2026-09-07 | |
| Farmland Partners (FPI)5 obs | $10.65 | +1.14% | EODHD | 2026-09-04 | |
| Gladstone Land (LAND)5 obs | $9.83 | +0.72% | EODHD | 2026-09-04 | |
| Rayonier (RYN)5 obs | $20.46 | +0.69% | EODHD | 2026-09-04 | |
| Weyerhaeuser (WY)5 obs | $23.02 | +0.83% | EODHD | 2026-09-04 | |
| PotlatchDeltic (PCH)1 obs | — | $41.73 | — | EODHD | 2026-02-04 |
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