{"id":345900,"date":"2018-01-29T17:29:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T16:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-im-investing-in-this-disastrous-sector-now\/"},"modified":"2018-01-29T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T16:29:36","slug":"why-im-investing-in-this-disastrous-sector-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-im-investing-in-this-disastrous-sector-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019m Investing in This Disastrous Sector Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>An agriculture boom is now in the making, says legendary investor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/moneymorning.com\/tag\/jim-rogers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jim Rogers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire commodity guru recently shared his outlook for the industry with\u00a0<strong><em>The Edge Financial Daily<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at the 2018 Investment and International Trade Forum over the weekend. It\u2019s bleak for famers, but great for investors who get in early.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/moneymorning.com\/tag\/agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Rogers<\/a>\u00a0sees two catalysts on the horizon for the agricultural industry\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"force-h3\"><strong>The Two Reasons Jim Rogers Is Investing in Agriculture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one wants to be a farmer anymore, as compared to the past, when farmers were like masters of the universe for a long period of time,\u201d said Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe agriculture sector has been a disaster for 35 years. Things are so bad. The average age of an American farmer is 58, the average age in Japan is 68. And do you know that the highest suicide rate in the UK is in the agricultural sector?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result, he argues, there will be a shortage of agricultural products in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, China, India, Russia, and other Asian countries will continue to fuel demand growth.<\/p>\n<p>The confluence of these two situations \u2013 decreasing supply and increasing demand \u2013 will fuel prices higher. \u201cThere will be an imbalance in the future between demand and supply in agricultural commodities\u2026 and that will drive prices higher,\u201d said Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>One way to ride the anticipated high prices is by investing in futures contracts of popular crops, like sugar. \u00a0But that\u2019s not the best option for every investor.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two more ways you can invest in the agricultural sector before the boom \u2013 plus a look at one \u201cbonus\u201d agriculture play that could mint you huge gains right now\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"force-h3\"><strong>How to Invest in Agriculture No. 1: Commodity-Based ETFs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Investing in commodity-based&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/01\/no_author\/why-im-investing-in-this-disastrous-sector-now\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agriculture boom is now in the making, says legendary investor\u00a0Jim Rogers. The billionaire commodity guru recently shared his outlook for the industry with\u00a0The Edge Financial Daily\u00a0at the 2018 Investment and International Trade Forum over the weekend. It\u2019s bleak for famers, but great for investors who get in early. That\u2019s because\u00a0Jim Rogers\u00a0sees two catalysts on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}