



With each passing day the investment community becomes more intrigued with farmland as an asset class. Farmland is now viewed as an essential commodity with concerns beyond the agricultural sphere dependent on its productive capabilities. It possesses strategic qualities similar to oil and is vitally important to the world’s economy. To some, it’s the source of our very existence. Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, said “civilization itself rests upon the soil.” Farmland, with but a few inches of valuable topsoil, is the gold of the future.
Unlike other agricultural and natural resource products, this commodity is not yet intertwined with the financial marketplace. Access to the asset class is restrictive and complex for many. Hedging capabilities for investors and property owners are nonexistent. The needed tools to reduce risk and serve as proxy investments have not kept pace with that of other commodities.
Investing in farmland should not be as limiting or as hazardous as transacting in an undeveloped commodity. Peak Soil Indexes offers the marketplace genuine farmland indexes derived from transparent documentation. The constructs can easily be applied to new products that benefit investment and agricultural trade.
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“Where the bottom layer of the sky rubs up against the top horizon of the soil, all terrestrial life is found.”
“Soils are developed; they are not merely an accumulation of debris resulting from decay of rock and organic materials … In other words, a soil is an entity – an object in nature which has characteristics that distinguish it from all other objects in nature.”
“We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.”
“If the soil is destroyed, then our liberty of action and choice are gone …”
“A soil is not a pile of dirt. It is a transformer, a body that organizes raw materials into tissue. These are the tissues that become the mother to all organic life.”
“Man and man’s earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.”
“… the soil of any one place makes its own peculiar and inevitable sense. It is impossible to contemplate the life of the soil for very long without seeing it as analogous to the life of the spirit.”
“I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their check. But ultimately it’s not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It’s the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all.”
“…only rarely have we stood back and celebrated our soils as something beautiful and perhaps even mysterious. For what other natural body, worldwide in its distribution, has so many interesting secrets to reveal to the patient observer”
“Civilization has its roots in the soil.”
“Essentially, all life depends upon the soil … There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.”
“Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.”
“Be it deep or shallow, red or black, sand or clay, the soil is the link between the rock core of the earth and the living things on its surface. It is the foothold for the plants we grow. Therein lies the main reason for our interest in soils.”
“For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.”
“We are overlooking soil as the foundation of all life on earth”
“There is no such thing as a residual soil.”
“The land belongs to the future.”
“While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.”
“The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.”
“A cloak of loose, soft material, held to the Earth’s hard surface by gravity, is all that lies between life and lifelessness.”
“To be a successful farmer one must first know the nature of the soil.”
“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.”
“Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that man may use for his own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our way of living, there are none that present more variations to tax our imagination than the soil, and certainly none so important to our ancestors, to ourselves, and to our children.”
“The nation that destroys its soil, destroys itself.”
“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable supplies of air and soil; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and I will say, the love we give our fragile craft.”
“How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?”
“Soil is the last necessary thing. With air and water, a person can live 30 days; add but a comely pile of dirt and life expectancy expands a thousand times.”
“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for it’s the only thing in this world that lasts. It’s the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for…”
“Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plans, and animals.”
“Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that man may use for his own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our way of living, there are none that present more variations to tax our imagination than the soil, and certainly none so important to our ancestors, to ourselves, and to our children.”
