Global AgInvesting 2020

The Farm Credit System

The Farm Credit System is a network of customer-owned lending institutions that supports agriculture and rural communities with reliable, consistent credit and financial services. Established by Congress in 1916, the Farm Credit System now provides credit to more than half a million farmers, ranchers, farmer-owned cooperatives and agribusinesses in every state. Farm Credit’s unique funding structure, with loans funded by the issuance of bonds, allows its lending associations to offer flexible financing solutions and long-term debt options with competitively low interest rates. The System’s cooperative structure allows its lenders to return profits to shareholders through cash patronage distributions. To learn more about the Farm Credit System, please visit farmcredit.com/overview-and-mission.

@FarmCredit

Hancock Natural Resource Group

Hancock Natural Resource Group (HNRG) is one of the world’s largest natural resource managers for institutional investors, managing a diverse global portfolio of farms and forests located in Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, and the United States, totaling US$14.1 billion total assets under management as of December 31, 2019. HNRG conducts business through two divisions, Hancock Timber Resource Group (HTRG) and Hancock Agricultural Investment Group (HAIG), and HNRG’s investments are integrated with comprehensive property management operations in each country through subsidiaries, affiliate companies, or investor owned entities. These include agricultural entities, Hancock Farmland Services (HFS) and Farmland Management Services (FMS), along with additional timberland and global agricultural focused entities. HNRG is a registered investment adviser, a wholly owned subsidiary of Manulife Financial Corporation and a part of Manulife Investment Management’s private markets platform.

hancocknaturalresourcegroup.com

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Nuveen

Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA, is one of the largest investment managers in the world with $1 trillion in assets under management*.

Managing a broad array of assets across diverse asset classes, geographies, and investment styles, we provide investors access to a wide range of liquid and illiquid alternative strategies such as real estate, real assets (farmland, timberland, infrastructure), private equity and debt, in addition to both traditional and fixed income assets.

We offer agriculture strategies through our investment specialists AGR Partners and Westchester. AGR Partners provides growth capital to leading middle market agribusinesses and food companies. Westchester has more than 30 years of experience in acquiring, managing and marketing agricultural real estate assets around the world, and is the largest manager of farmland assets globally**.

For further information, visit nuveen.com.

*As of 30 Jun 2019.
**Source: Pensions & Investments, 30 Sept 2019. Rankings based on institutional tax-exempt assets under management as of 30 Jun 2019 reported by each responding asset manager.

@NuveenInv

Farmer Mac

Farmer Mac is a vital part of the agricultural credit markets and was created to increase access to and reduce the cost of capital for the benefit of American agricultural and rural communities. As the nation’s premier secondary market for agricultural credit, we provide financial solutions to a broad spectrum of the agricultural community, including agricultural lenders, agribusinesses, and other institutions that can benefit from access to flexible, low-cost financing and risk management tools. Farmer Mac‘s customers benefit from our low cost of funds, low overhead costs, and high operational efficiency. For more than a quarter-century, Farmer Mac has been delivering the capital and commitment rural America deserves.

www.farmermac.com

@FarmerMacNews

International Farming Corporation

International Farming (“IFC”) is a U.S.-based agricultural operator uniquely positioned to solve food sourcing challenges identified through supply/demand imbalances. We are deeply committed to innovation, sustainable and equitable production practices, and providing a secure, reliable food supply. IFC currently manages ~$2bn AUM, with strategies dedicated to core farmland, development and vertically-integrated farming operations.

IFC has nearly 200 years of operator experience and a team that has farmed in the Americas, Africa, and Eastern Europe. The firm leverages (i) extensive agricultural operating knowledge, (ii) multi-generational industry relationships, (iii) deep understanding of the vertically-integrated farm value chain and (iv) innovative, in-house ag-tech solutions. IFC’s platform enables its management team to primarily source off-market transactions as well as manage institutional-quality farmland and related operating assets for its investors. Our agriculture portfolio is diversified across 400K acres in the U.S. and Australia with 60+ row and permanent crops, vegetables and organic produce.

The firm consistently focuses on unlocking unrealized farmland value by transforming mispriced or underinvested agribusiness assets into top-quality, institutional-grade operations. A combination of capital improvements, agronomy, and innovative technology has helped us maximize yield, which has been fundamental across our platform and funds.

www.internationalfarming.com

US Agriculture

US Agriculture is a registered investment advisor offering investors a unique combination of extensive institutional investment experience along with a broad and deep array of agricultural experience and knowledge. Our team of investment professionals has decades of experience working with the world’s largest pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, and other institutional investors. US Agriculture’s team of experienced investment professionals is able to draw upon the firm’s extensive agricultural resources to provide investors a research-based approach to the development of investment strategies and the construction of investment portfolios.

US Agriculture’s investment team combines first-hand insights into the needs and requirements of institutional investors with hands on agricultural experience, providing an important advantage. US Agriculture offers investors thoughtful investment strategies guided by its research-based approach to the development of investment strategies and investment portfolios. Our deep and extensive relationships allow us to efficiently and effectively implement and execute these strategies for our clients.

www.US-Agriculture.com

AMERRA Capital Management

AMERRA Capital Management, LLC is a New York based agribusiness investment manager. AMERRA deploys capital through both private equity and private debt strategies. AMERRA acts as a boutique merchant bank supporting growth-oriented, private agribusinesses. AMERRA also provides a full spectrum of customized capital products ranging from senior secured to junior debt investments including various forms of working capital, land transformation and CAPEX programs, to private equity.

AMERRAcapital.com

Gladstone Land Corporation

Gladstone Land is a publicly traded farmland REIT (NASDAQ: LAND) that acquires high-quality farms and farm-related properties in the United States that are leased on a net basis. Our primary focus is large fruit and vegetable farms leased to strong farm operators in prime growing regions. Our public stock gives investors liquidity and the ownership of a diversified portfolio of appreciating farmland with rental income distributed as a monthly dividend.

www.GladstoneLand.com

@GladstoneComps

Paine Schwartz Partners

A global leader in sustainable food chain investing, Paine Schwartz Partners is a private equity firm that focuses on investment opportunities in the fast-growing, dynamic global food and agribusiness sectors. The firm’s investment, operations and finance professionals invest throughout cycles across the food and agribusiness value chain and bring a collaborative and active management approach to portfolio companies.

www.paineschwartz.com

PGIM

PGIM's Agricultural Investments team has a fully integrated platform to serve third party investors seeking equity exposure to farmland across the United States in both permanent crop and row crop strategies. With more than 40 years of fiduciary experience in owning and operating farms, our team builds each portfolio from the ground up and looks for opportunities that are accretive to the portfolio while staying within the client's investment objectives.

PGIM Real Estate Finance's Agricultural Finance team has been lending to institutional investors and families for over 120 years. We are a stable and trusted capital partner, offering a full suite of competitive loan products for a wide range of agricultural and timber properties.

As the agricultural market changes, borrowers and investors need help navigating new challenges and opportunities. With our strong expertise, large hold limits, and customized products, we design solutions to meet our clients' diverse objectives.

PGIM is the Global Investment Management Businesses of Prudential Financial, Inc.

www.pgimref.com/agequity

www.pgimref.com/agloans

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Proterra Investment Partners

Proterra Investment Partners (“Proterra”) is an alternative investment manager focused on private capital investments in the natural resources sectors of agriculture, food, and metals and mining with over $3 billion in assets under management. Our fund investments reflect fundamental perspectives on the macro- and micro-economic trends driving the markets in which we invest.

Through an emphasis on strong local relationships and expertise, Proterra seeks to provide unique opportunities for investors. Proterra launched as a standalone investment advisor for the Black River Asset Management private equity funds on January 1, 2016. The Funds spun out from Black River Asset Management, a wholly-owned, independently managed subsidiary of Cargill, Inc.

www.proterrapartners.com

AgIS Capital

AgIS Capital is a private equity firm that invests in farmland and related agricultural operating companies. After decades of experience and investing several billion dollars in the agricultural sector, AgIS Capital was formed in 2013 by three principals. Since that time, the firm has raised and invested over $1 billion of institutional capital primarily in the permanent crop sector.

The firm conducts business via separate accounts with a limited number of large, institutional client relationships. AgIS Capital employs a prudent, opportunistic approach to investing and believes that combining farmland and private equity investments creates value for our clients. The firm is based in Boston, MA with additional offices in California, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Texas and Washington.

Visit our website at: www.agiscapital.com or contact Steve Kenney at skenney@agiscapital.com for more information.

@AgISCapital

Aqua Capital

Aqua Capital is a private equity firm focusing on growth control investments in mid-market companies throughout the Brazilian and South American agribusiness and food value chain, managing $650 million in AUM. Since our inception in 2009, we have allocated over $450 million through twenty-four control acquisitions organized in thirteen platforms. Aqua Capital has the largest dedicated agribusiness private equity team in the region, and one of the largest globally. Our investment model is based on professionalizing and growing mid-market companies and executing roll-ups, originating unique, proprietary opportunities through our deep sector knowledge. We are the most award-winning firm in Latin America for ESG standards and practices, and the first private equity firm in Latin America certified as Great Place to Work®.

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Arable Capital Partners

Arable Capital Partners is a private investment firm founded specifically to make investments in food and agriculture businesses, related industries and vertically-integrated assets. Arable’s team and investment fund is designed for this sector leveraging our team’s agriculture, operations and investing expertise with an ability to own assets long-term. Arable makes both minority and majority investments in partnership with strong management teams sharing our strategy and vision for long term growth.

arablecp.com

Argyle Capital Partners

Argyle Capital Partners manages strategic investments in Australian water rights and farmland delivering non-correlated, real-asset backed returns for institutional investors.

Since our 2007 foundation, Argyle has developed a track record of originating, managing and successfully exiting proprietary investments via extensive regional networks built throughout our career histories in Australia’s ag sector. The evergreen Argyle Water Fund has delivered over 15% annualised returns since its launch in 2012.

Argyle Capital Partners is an independent firm, majority owned by its management team and currently manages over AUD800m in water and agricultural assets.

www.argylegroup.com.au

Bonnefield Financial

Bonnefield Financial Inc. (“Bonnefield”) is one of Canada’s leading farmland investment managers. For over 10 years, Bonnefield has provided leading Canadian farmers an alternative to traditional debt or equity financing through farmland lease-financing agreements which allow farm operators to strengthen their balance sheets, improve cash flow, expand their land base, and/or plan for generational transfer.

Bonnefield’s investment model provides investors with low-correlated, low-volatility, equity-like returns while preserving farmland for farming. Bonnefield currently manages four investment partnerships comprising 125k acres of farmland across Canada, and $900mm of Assets Under Management.

bonnefield.com

Conservation Resources

Conservation Resources is an investment organization that seeks to align private equity with conservation capital for the purpose of acquiring and managing a diverse portfolio of real asset properties. We are focused on offering portfolios of timberland and agriculture investments, with associated conservation and natural resource values. We do so in a manner that seeks to provide a competitive rate of return for our investors while optimizing the conservation values of the lands we manage.

www.conservationresources.net

Continental Grain Company

Continental Grain Company (CGC) is a privately held holding company, with over two hundred years of experience in the food and agribusiness sectors. The Company manages a portfolio of over 30 investments across 18 subsectors and several different asset classes including direct investments, publicly traded securities and venture capital. CGC’s portfolio includes assets in the U.S., China and Latin America, employing over 10,000 people.

www.continentalgrain.com

Equilibrium

Equilibrium is a global investment firm building sustainability driven real assets and private equity portfolios in agriculture, food and distributed waste-water-energy infrastructure for institutional investors. Through our research driven product development process, we bring our institutional clients unique market insights, investment opportunities, and accessible portfolios. We are often the first mover in our sector to spot a market trend or advantage, and translate that into an institutional scale portfolio. We create value through active management, executing an investor-operator model on our assets, projects, and portfolios.

http://eq-cap.com/

Farm Alliance Management Co., Ltd.

名　称　　　株式会社ファーム・アライアンス・マネジメント

Name:  Farm Alliance Management Co., Ltd

設　立　　　2012年3月

Establishment: March 2012

資本金　　　93,752,500円　

Capital:  YEN 93,752,500

所在地　　　〒102-0074

　　　　　　東京都千代田区九段南3丁目4番5号　番町ビル3階A

Address: Bancho Buildiing 3A
4-5 Kudan Minami 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
102-0074

電話/FAX　 +81-3-3265-5090/+81-3-3265-5091

Telephone/FAX +81-3-3265-5090/+81-3-3265-5091

代表者　　　代表取締役　松本　武

President Takeshi Matsumoto, President & CEO

事業内容　　・国際認証GLOBAL G.A.P.の認証取得支援コンサルティング
　　　　　　・農業経営コンサルティング
　　　　　　・農業生産情報管理システムサービスの提供
　　　　　　・農産物の卸売および販売

Business Description: ・Global G.A.P Certification acquisition consulting
・Agribusiness Management Consulting
・Service Provider of Agricultural Production Information Management System
・Wholesale and sale of agricultural products

Gunn Agri Partners

Gunn Agri Partners is an independent Australian farmland manager and farm services company. Gunn Agri principals have decades of hands on experience from farm owner, to farm manager and heads of some of Australia’s premier farming businesses which compliments global asset and investment management experience.

Gunn Agri currently manages more than A$220m of assets across 2.5 million acres of livestock pasture, row cropping and permanent plantings. In addition to this Gunn Agri has provided advisory services to another $300m of assets across Australia, Africa and the Americas.

The core principles of Gunn Agri are alignment, transparency and sustainability. Gunn Agri offers tailored solutions with access to direct deals, separately managed accounts and co-mingled fund vehicles in the farmland and impact space.

www.gunnagri.com

Kilter Rural

Kilter Rural is a specialist manager of Australian farmland, water and ecosystem assets.

For more than 15 years our philosophy has involved long-term, active stewardship of agribusiness and water assets to generate commercial, sustainable and transformative value.

Through the application of science, ag-technology and diligent water-resource management we sustainably and profitably transform underutilised farmland into highly efficient and valuable irrigated cropping operations. In combining regenerative agriculture with organic production, we have become the largest grower of irrigated organic cereal crops in Australia.

Our innovative approach to sustainable agriculture is shaping the future of impact investing to maximise opportunities provided by the drivers of food security, climate change, demographic change and sustainability. It is also helping us deliver measurable, tangible returns to communities while protecting local ecosystems.

Amid rapid environmental, social and market changes, we provide institutional and wholesale investors with access to farmland and water products designed to deliver long-term, non-correlated, inflation-protected returns.

kilterrural.com

Laguna Bay

Laguna Bay is one of the largest independently owned agricultural fund managers. Offering full service asset management solutions, Laguna Bay manages capital for institutional fund investors by partnering with best in class local operators in farmland, food and agricultural companies focusing predominantly on Australia and New Zealand.

Laguna Bay has experience across multiple sectors and operating strategies with a demonstrated ability to originate, execute, manage, add value and exit investment-grade agricultural assets.

We believe that if you partner with culturally aligned investors and operators in a manner that:
• matches the needs of the asset and operator to the needs of the capital;
• suits our patient investment style;
• engenders transparent and accurate communication; and
• is respectful to all stakeholders,
we will deliver, in the long run, successful investment outcomes and it’ll be enjoyable along the way.

www.lagunabay.com.au

Valley Irrigation

Valley® Irrigation, proudly manufactures center pivot, corner and linear machines for the agriculture industry, and is notably irrigation's authority on advanced technology.

Since pioneering center pivot irrigation in 1954, we've helped growers in more than 90 countries conserve water while increasing crop quality and yields - connecting more machines worldwide to provide network autonomy. Our extensive line of innovative equipment, including remote control and irrigation monitoring products, efficiently delivers water, chemicals and fertilizer while reducing energy consumption and runoff.

Valley products are manufactured at six Valmont Irrigation facilities in the United States, Brazil, China, South Africa, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates. We support all of our equipment with a worldwide network of more than 450 dealers.

With more than 60 years of experience, Valley remains committed to providing innovative, precision irrigation solutions that meet the dynamic water and agricultural needs of growers around the world.

www.valleyirrigation.com

@ValleyPivots

AcreTrader

AcreTrader is an online marketplace for investors and land owners. It facilitates transactions both small and large, primarily through an online securitization platform that allows accredited investors and family offices to purchase shares of individual parcels.

www.acretrader.com

@acretraderinc
 

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Freshfields is a leader among international law firms, providing business law advice of the highest quality throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. With more than 2,800 lawyers in 27 offices around the world, the firm provides a comprehensive service to national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments. Over the last five years, we have advised on over $1tn of cross-border deals – more than any other firm in the world.

In the United States, Freshfields provides integrated and proactive legal counsel to clients seeking local or international advice. The firm’s US practice is a key part of its international footprint; it has almost 200 lawyers based in the United States and more than 350 US-qualified lawyers working in its offices around the world. Cross borders with confidence. Cross borders with Freshfields.

www.freshfields.com

@Freshfields

K·Coe Isom

K·Coe Isom is a top 100 accounting firm, a leading food and agriculture consulting firm, and a top provider of sustainability assurance. With roots dating back to 1932, the firm has expanded upon traditional accounting services to deliver increased value for clients through comprehensive advisory consulting. A sampling of our consultative service offerings include complete policy-to-plate strategies, sustainability programs, federal affairs, land conservation, wealth management, succession planning, and talent strategy – to name a few. K·Coe Isom also provides ground breaking non-traditional assurance engagements, including Sustainability Audits, Examinations of sustainability reporting and benefit claims, Readiness Reviews, and pre-audit Advisory Services to a number of certifications, audit programs, and verification systems. K·Coe Isom provides insight and solutions for the food and ag, biofuels, land management, manufacturing, construction, and banking industries.

www.kcoe.com

@kcoeisom

LandRenter

LandRenter was developed by Farmers to provide solutions for the rental market by cultivating rental connections that are grounded in transparency, honesty, and efficiency by working with a multitude of growers across the USA to offer them opportunities that traditional companies cannot.

LandRenter offers an innovative approach to Ag land and Hunting Land rental market by efficiently and effectively connecting owners with renters through the power of an absolute no reserve online auction.

landrenter.com

@LandRenter

Peoples Company

Peoples Company provides a full-service land transaction and asset management platform across all major agricultural regions in the US. The Company specializes in complex agricultural transactions involving a wide range of production systems and offers a complete suite of services to corporate clients, family offices, pension funds, and high-net-worth individuals.

PeoplesCompany.com

@PeoplesCompany

Peritia Capital Management

Peritia Capital Management is a boutique investment management firm focused on investing in sustainable natural resources. The firm was founded in 2019 by three industry veterans – Avtar Vasu, Danielle Jankowich and Qinhai Xia – who bring 45+ years of collective institutional experience in the natural resources asset class. The founders bring domain expertise, institutional rigor, a complementary skill set, and a differentiated perspective when investing in the asset class. The firm invests in assets or companies via debt, equity, or joint-venture structures.

The firm's core strategy is built around key principles of managing climate change risk, proactively incorporating ESG factors when investing, efficiently managing natural resources, and promoting diversity.

Peritia is an independent firm and a minority and women owned business enterprise.