Full Disclosure

The plight of the family farmer is no more. Food prices are soaring; the Chinese want our chickens, hogs and corn; and investors want a real asset to hedge against inflation. More food crops are being diverted to the production of bio fuels. All told, U.S. farmland prices have increased more than 17 percent a year over the last decade of economic uncertainty. On this "Full Disclosure," Roben Farzad talks with a farmer, a tractor-loving investor and a grocery buyer.

Don't look now, but U.S. farmland has soared in value over the last twenty years. You can thank higher food prices by way of the voracious demand for grains and proteins from emerging markets -- as well as competition for crops from biofuels in an era of higher energy prices. Lately, investors have been piling into farmland (up more than 17% a year over the last ten years) as a hedge against inflation and currency debasement. Is this trend here to stay? Or are "nouveau-ags" swelling yet another asset bubble? We ask one of Virginia's biggest farmers, a buyer for a localvore-friendly market and a farm-raised investment banker who was recently a biofuels mogul.

Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad: Tuning Out the Bull by Roben Farzad

"I don't usually go around discussing these stories," says James Harmon, founder and chairman of the Caravel Fund. Harmon shares with host Roben Farzad an incident that happened on his watch, back when led the Export-Import Bank in this "Quick Hit" excerpt from "Pushing the Frontier" (aired June 13, 2014).

Miami-based moviemakers Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman share with host Roben Farzad their advice for would-be media moguls and entrepreneurs in this "Quick Hit" excerpt from "The Disruptors" (aired May 16, 2014).

How steep gambling debts, credit-card debt and a debt to society brought two troubled men together and on the straight and narrow: a true story.

Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad: Gonzo Activism by Roben Farzad

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was supposed to cake-walk his way through a joke primary against a little-known and vastly underfunded college professor; no one down here much took the election seriously. Instead, the Richmond Tea Party somehow ousted the powerful Republican, proving that its wing of the party would have to be reckoned with this election year and, more importantly, in the 2016 Presidential race. What's the Tea Party's beef with today's GOP? Immigration? The IRS? Two Richmond Tea party organizers join us, as well as Randolph-Macon professor and immigration advocate Debra Rodman and ABC News political director Rick Klein.

Caravel Fund’s James Harmon and Caglar Somek, accomplished investors in the “frontier” — delicate but fast-growing developing economies like Ghana, Bangladesh and the Philippines that are gunning to become the next Korea and Brazil. Can you do well and do good? Harmon, a Wall Street veteran, worked as the head of the Export-Import Bank under Bill Clinton … when Hillary urged him to take his first-ever trip to Africa. We’re joined by Adaora Udoji, a Nigerian-American author and former WNYC host, for a talk on the paradox of Sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest economy, which is booming while constantly on the brink of civil war.