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How to Invest in the Most Efficient Way To Feed the WorldBy
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Last week, I visited the construction site of the largest slaughterhouse in Latin America. This development is more like an industrial park. Once complete, there will be a chicken slaughterhouse and a pig slaughterhouse. Plus, I counted eight or nine more buildings under construction. I expect these will be feedlots, incubators, grain silos, and packaging plants. To support its huge slaughterhouse complex, the company needs millions of pigs, chickens, and eggs. Building the complex is the first stage of the mega-project. Creating 368 new local pig and chicken farms is the second stage of the project. This plant is in Lucas do Rio Verde. Lucas is the perfect farming town. I can't adequately describe how big the growing area is around here. Nor can a photograph. The fields stretch as far as you can see in every direction. There are 2 million acres of farmland in a 150-mile radius around Lucas. Lucas produces the cheapest grains in the world. But there's more to it than that... To get to Lucas, I traveled for six hours up highway BR-163, the Soybean Highway. The soybeans take this route to port. One thousand trucks travel in either direction, each day. Agriculture giants Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, and Cargill all have huge operations in Lucas. Equipment makers John Deere and Case New Holland both have large dealerships. Good investing, Tom P.S. Adventurous investors might consider buying land in Brazil and learning how to farm. You should speak to Paulo Franz. He's one of the top businessmen in Lucas and he speaks English. You can e-mail him at [email protected].
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The World's Hottest Real Estate Market Market NotesTHE ONE THING YOU SHOULD READ THIS WEEK Something huge is happening in the markets right now. It's a trend that shows up in the "gold vs. stocks ratio." Not one in a hundred investors pays attention to it. We've encouraged investors to keep a good chunk of their wealth in "hard assets" like gold, oil, and silver for years. In March 2006, we presented a chart showing how hard assets – represented by gold – were soaring against paper assets – represented by the S&P 500. We highlighted this trend again in a Thanksgiving series of unusual asset comparisons. You see, once every generation or so, stocks vastly outperform hard assets... then a "switch" goes off and hard assets outperform stocks for years and years. For the complete explanation of this phenomenon, we encourage you to read this excerpt from the January 2006 issue of True Wealth, which you can access for free here. If you read and understand just one thing this week, please make sure it's the idea contained in that issue. With that idea in mind, you'll understand why the trend shown in the chart below – the outperformance of gold vs. stocks – is likely to continue for a good while longer. |
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