For liquidity Petrela expects to either sell the farms or to recapitalize them, with a conservative amount of debt.
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Petrela has farm agents scouring southern Manitoba- only 100 miles north of the US for farmers, often in their 70s, who want to sell their relatively small farms.
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Since 1 calorie of beef requires 8 times as much input of grain as a single calorie of bread, Petrela recognizes that rising protein consumption means a rising demand for grains which in turn means a rising demand for global farmland.
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