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25 – Nov – 2024
Bisnow Weekend Interview: How Farmland Partners’ Paul Pittman is Growing Cash Crops for Shareholders
When Paul Pittman looks at farmland, he sees more than dirt and crops — he sees a stable, appreciating asset class with high growth potential and market resilience. Andshareholders in the public REIT he founded a decade ago in Denver, Farmland Partners, are seeing big dividends. The commercial real estate industry across asset classes is […]
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FPI Insights
11 – Oct – 2024
Managing the Farm
Farmland Partners’ core business is purchasing high-quality farmland then leasing that land back to farmers at the highest possible rents – thus deriving returns for company investors through income revenue and asset appreciation. But buying and renting farmland isn’t our only source of funds. We also manage farms on behalf of third-party landlords through our […]
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FPI Insights
28 – Aug – 2024
Farmland Remains Resilient in Tough Times
The federal government recently published several studies that shed some light on why investors often turn to farmland during troubled times. It’s because farmland rarely loses value. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s highly anticipated 2024 farmland value survey, which was released in August, showed continued asset appreciation of U.S. farmland over the past 12 months. […]
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FPI Insights
12 – Jul – 2024
The Strategic Value of Contiguous Farmland
Farmland Partners receives calls frequently about potential acquisition opportunities – from agents representing for-sale properties, farmers or heirs looking to liquidate, and even other institutional investors interested in reallocating capital. FPI passes on a lot of these opportunities. That’s because we primarily focus on farms with prime soil quality, water availability, market access, and climate […]
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FPI Insights
17 – Apr – 2024
The Vital Role of Agriculture Serves as a Foundation for Farmland Investing
“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.” This quote, made during the Democratic National Convention in 1896, was meant to be a reminder to the […]
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FPI Insights
21 – Mar – 2024
Looming Challenge: Feeding the World Amidst Farmland Scarcity
The much-anticipated Ag Census, which was released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in February, contained a statistic at the top of the very first table that likely caught the eye of most farmland investors. Total land in farms in 2022 fell to 880.1 million acres, down from 900.2 million acres in the last Census […]
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FPI Insights
03 – Jan – 2024
Sometimes It Makes Sense to Sell the Farm
Farmland Partners has a rigorous underwriting process in place to evaluate potential purchases – one that considers soil quality, water availability, potential tenant pools, market access, the climate, and other variables. That’s because when we buy a farm, we do so with the intention of holding that property for the long haul, building a relationship […]
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Farmer Stories
18 – Oct – 2023
Mermentau River Farm: A Wildlife and Agriculture Paradise
If you’re ever on the Mermentau River farm in southern Louisiana, keep your eyes peeled. In addition to 5,943 farmable acres, the property is an amazing wildlife habitat teeming with waterfowl and lots of alligators. It is prized as a duck-hunting haven. And, it has an interesting crop rotation that is unique to that area […]
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FPI Insights
10 – Oct – 2023
Farmland and CapEx
The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, which covers the District of Columbia, Maryland, the Carolinas, Virginia, and most of West Virginia, published some noteworthy observations this summer about businesses’ capital expenditures, or CapEx. According to the Fed, companies in those states are taking on fewer capital expenditures and are either slowing the pace of existing […]
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FPI Insights
22 – Sep – 2023
The Peaks and Plateaus of Farmland Values
We’ve noted before that, according to USDA data, the United States lost an average of 4.3 acres of agricultural land every minute of every day from 2000 to 2022. For perspective, that’s an area larger than three football fields every 60 seconds. Meanwhile, food demand continued to grow as population and global wealth both increased. […]
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