Farmland and timber
Land and standing timber are the classic long-duration real assets; the investing texts are technical and the general literature is about who is buying.
9 books
Start here
- LandSimon Winchester, 2021
- The Land GrabbersFred Pearce, 2012
- BaronsAustin Frerick, 2024
Books 9
T2 Land
Simon Winchester · 2021 · Global history of land ownership, enclosure and dispossession.
Fred Pearce · 2012 · The post-2008 institutional rush into farmland across the developing world.
Peter Wohlleben · 2015 · Forest ecology as a connected system; background for timberland owners
Justin Farrell · 2020 · Wealth, land and conservation in the American West.
Tom Philpott · 2020 · Soil, water and the financial fragility of US farmland.
T3 Barons
Austin Frerick · 2024 · Concentration of ownership across American agriculture.
F. C. Zinkhan, W. R. Sizemore, G. H. Mason, T. J. Ebner · 1992 · The portfolio case for timberland; the founding practitioner text.
W. David Klemperer · 1996 · Standard textbook on rotation-age valuation and forest finance.
Brian Reisinger · 2024 · Why family farms lose ground to consolidated ownership.