The crop farming sector has been relatively profitable in the past severalyears, whereas the general economy has gone through a great deal of turmoil.In this research, we constructed an Aglndex, which tracked the stock pricesof publicly traded companies dealing with agriculture performed since 2000.As a group, the market values of publicly traded firms within the Aglndexexceeded those of Standard & Poors 500 (S&P 500) since 2000. Returnswere higher for agricultural firms compared with S&P 500 firms.Performance varied across agricultural sectors with fertilizer and seedcompanies performing the best.
