Why is George Soros selling gold and buying farmland?

Begs the question. Uhm, cause he can't eat oro ? Safe guess.

SWEET!!!! I own 80 acres of fantastic vineyard/farmland in Willcox Arizona!!! Who has Soros's number?

Despite the fact that Soros is a cancer that needs to be cut out he does have his finger on the pulse of trends and intentions. Of course this may be a chicken and egg thing due to the amount of financial influence he has worldwide. I have always been a fan of buying dirt. There is a finite amount of it and demand, despite the real estate market, will always go up.

from the Bloomberg article mentioned above these two paragraphs say a LOT about investments in farmland:

"Vieth’s farm funds are facing head winds in coming months and years: A likely rise in interest rates will push up his acquisition costs and the value of the dollar, which in turn might hurt commodity exports. While the former trader keeps a close eye on the dollar, he says farming will continue to thrive.

Investors seem to agree. At a dining-room table in the farmhouse in Granger, Vieth sits down at his computer one evening and totals the day’s haul: another $900,000 from investors looking for comfort -- and profits -- in one of the oldest and most essential industries on the planet."

the 1st paragraph speaks of the likely increase in the value of the dollar and that such an increase is more of a bad thing than a good thing for farming in the US. If you think about this, it makes a lot of sense: not only does an increase affect acquisition, it also affects the amount of US produced foods purchased by other countries (the article mentions the increase in middle class population in India and China as being the driving force behind demand for more food). If the dollar's value is higher the demand for US products goes down simply because it costs too much.

The second paragraph smacks of ponzi schemes - these hedge fund investors that got out of the financial market and are now playing their games with farming investments.... are we headed for a repeat of the financial market type crash?

Wait let me guess---I know this one----cause he's smart?

The bullshit Gold Market is just another Republican Con Game--why do you think Gold Buying Commercials run 24/7 on FOX NEWS?

Gold is just as worthless as paper when it's "I'm hungry time"!

Water rights, and it's nothing new. Google "buying up water rights."

already grow my own food

I know The Government is going to pay them NOT To Farm.

Because he has a brain... The first step to freedom is food & water independence, how so many people have neglected to see this fact...? But it fits, we all live off slaves in some other country manufacturing for us, why not surrender any actual freedom to some corporation or government entity... after all that crackberry is very liberating....

Lambs to the slaughter....

Maybe he wants to grow weed and make even more gazillions

Because he can?

Whoa, this is going to drive Glenn Beck nuts!

Because ya can't eat gold... and food is set to be worth more than gold.

I don't know about George Soros, but I'd rather have a 40 acre farm than its value in gold. But that's just me. I like growing stuff.

Anytime we see a lot of commercials that ramp up fear and then try to sell us gold, I figure gold is not what we should be buying. If it was gonna be such a good thing, why would the people with it be hawking it to us rubes?

Learn water harvesting, cuz aquifers are being bought up too.

Seeds, learn to gather, save them. Try some new edible plants in the yard, learn their life cycles, harvest seeds and store for the next year.

Learn: find out about gardening classes in your area. Many County Extension offices have classes. Many libraries do programs with master gardeners. Find the person in your 'hood with the green thumb and offer help in exchange for knowledge.

Teach: Get some fired up school teachers or youth group leaders to help you advocate for community gardens and/or garden patches at schools. There are so many lessons in natural sciences that one can engage kids in in a garden. So easy to make lessons fun and age appropriate from the youngest to the oldest. Besides showing them where food comes from, teaching them some natural science and showing them it's good to experiment with plants, tweak methods, chart results, the garden teaches lessons for the soul. Teach the kids that they can grow some of their own food and that cooperation makes for lighter work. Take an ugly patch and help them make it a garden and you have also taught them they do not have to just accept the way things are, they can turn things into something better, something beautiful, something which will help sustain them

They can't eat gold.

"He who controls the spice controls the Universe!"

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=phosphorus-a-looming-crisis

YOU CAN NOT EAT GOLD,
BUT YOU CAN GROW FOOD. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
GMO CROPS MAKE MONEY

Part of the problem is that yes, global warming is a factor but, one must also take into account prices for corn which has become inflated due to the increasing demand for corn based ethanol fuel within the United States. The US is one of the biggest producers of corn and as a result, diverting our corn resources into fuel products inflates the price of corn around the World and hits Latin America especially when it comes to tortilla prices.

Wouldn't it be good if some of them (Soros) did it for the 'good' of man and not the 'bad' greed, which is what has been happening. Wouldn't it be a hoot, if they were doing it not to have more, more, more. But instead, seeing a future they can invest in today, to make the world a better place tomorrow?

There has to be better out there somewhere? Maybe George Soros and others are going to increase the output of food? If food is becoming scarse, wouldn't it be good if more were grown? Maybe more food production will decrease others from creating a 'real' shortage and inflate the price of food, for personal greed?

I've been doing the same thing.
I've always admired George Soros; he's a very genial and farsighted man.

I will invest in seeds .

I have always wondered when reality would sink in. It has always stuck me as funny that gold was such a valued commodity. When it comes right down to it, without all the bells, whistles and illusions, the only things of true value as far as sustaining life are air, water and food. The fact that this simple truth seems to have been forgotten by the powerful group of people that make the rules in favor of accumulating wealth has been something I have watched with great sadness. I had thought there would be a limit to greed and stupidity. I am sorry to see that there is no limit and now the powerful are going to gouge the masses for life itself after they have destroyed the very place that offered sustenance in abundance.

Hmm, for the same reason Billl Gates now loves sowing seeds for profit with Monsanto? Do the rich of the world already know of the upcoming global famine, made only worse by the effects of climate change that remains unchecked and seriously addressed? Are they positioning themselves as with oil and now water to control all of our food sources? We need to be aware. And this is not about political party.This is about control.