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Dirt that pays rent, if you treat it right and don't poison the tenant.
means Land used or suited for growing crops or raising livestock.
from A straightforward compound: 'farm' (from Latin firma, a fixed payment or rent — a farm was originally land held under a fixed rental agreement) plus 'land,' the old Germanic word for ground or territory. The farming sense of 'farm' as 'cultivated land' only solidified later; before that it meant the lease itself, not the dirt.
- global area
- about 11% of earth's land surface
- slow asset
- outperforms stocks with far less drama
- hidden cost
- topsoil forms slower than humans replace it
- ownership trend
- increasingly owned by investors, not farmers