Peoples Perspective

Throughout my 20-year career at Peoples Company, I have been involved in billions of dollars of real estate transactions and have witnessed firsthand the financial performance of U.S. farmland through numerous economic shocks including the great financial crisis, Ben Bernanke’s quantitative easing experiment, Trump’s trade wars, the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and now the nation’s battle with persistent inflation. On a pure return basis, farmland has outperformed most traditional equity and fixed income strategies, and has done so with incredibly low volatility compared to other asset classes over that time period.

Peoples Company, a full-service land transaction and management business with offices in all major agricultural regions in the U.S., today announced the hire of Jonathan Shively as PC Capital Markets' Managing Director of Capital Partnerships. In this role, Jonathan will manage and facilitate relationships with Peoples Company's capital market partners, including institutional investors, wealth managers, family offices and high net-worth individual investors, connecting them with agricultural assets throughout the country.

Peoples Company recently added land management services in the Pacific Northwest region. Given the diversity of the Pacific Northwest, the team is responsible for managing a variety of crops including potatoes, organic carrots, grapes, wheat, sweet corn and more.