Craigmore Sustainables

As of February 2013, Craigmore manages NZ$80mm of investor capital invested in 13,000 hectares (33,000 acres) of land across 17 properties. The Elworthy family is a significant investor in both the farming and forestry funds and has been farming in New Zealand for 150 years. Forbes’ father Sir Peter Elworthy was President of NZ’s Federated Farmers and Chair of the Independent Directors of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

All Craigmore investments are in New Zealand. The country’s climate is ideally suited to low cost pastoral farming, and is known as the “Saudi Arabia of milk protein” – exporting over 35% of international trade in dairy commodities.

After many years of being over-supplied and therefore depressed, agricultural markets are now in tight supply. Falling rates of yield increase plus increasing consumption of protein in Asia (animal proteins require approximately three to seven times more land-area per calorie of food than carbohydrates) mean the future of the farming industry is bright. Prices of food and fibre commodities are expected to increase: this increase will be capitalised into the value of land investments.

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