AcreTrader Review: My Investment in Cash-Flowing Farmland

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In 2019, I made my first farmland investment via AcreTrader, an agricultural investing platform, and I’ve now had a couple of years of experience with the company to aid in writing this AcreTrader review.

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I grew up in a small farming community in southern Minnesota, and several of my friends lived on farms.

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I got to enjoy the freshest sweet corn every summer, hayrides and big bonfires in the fall, and those farm kids contributed to one great wrestling team in high school.

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I’ve known that agriculture can be a profitable and reliable business, but until recently, I didn’t know of a good way to participate as an investor in the field (pun intended). AcreTrader has changed that, making it simple for accredited investors to own a piece of a crop-producing, cash-flowing farm without getting their hands dirty.

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The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012 gave millions of Americans access to investments previously available only to institutional investors. Title III of the JOBS Act, known as the CROWDFUND Act, went into effect in 2016, allowing for the creation of crowdfunded real estate investing platforms like AcreTrader.

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The company was founded in 2018 by CEO Carter Malloy, but the seeds go much further back. Carter, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at a conference in 2019, grew up in a farming family in Arkansas, but he took a different path, earning a degree in physics and eventually joining a large private investment bank as an equity research analyst.

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With AcreTrader, he is returning to his roots while using his experience in the world of finance to invest only in top-performing farms and farmland. His company does due diligence to separate the wheat from the chaff on every potential investment, rejecting > 99% of them, with only the cream of the crop offered up to potential investors.

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AcreTrader Review: My Investment in Cash-Flowing Farmland

In 2019, I made my first farmland investment via AcreTrader, an agricultural investing platform, and I’ve now had a couple of years of experience with the company to aid in writing this AcreTrader review.

I grew up in a small farming community in southern Minnesota, and several of my friends lived on farms.

I got to enjoy the freshest sweet corn every summer, hayrides and big bonfires in the fall, and those farm kids contributed to one great wrestling team in high school.

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