As CEO of CommonGood Capital, I am focused on working with great Impact Investment Managers who have a dual purpose to make competitive returns for investors while making meaningful and measurable impact. I am excited to share we are now working with Agriculture Capital “AC” based out of Portland. Always love coming home to my roots. AC’s focus is regenerative farming and Oregon is an important part of their farmland footprint. With $800 million of AUM and a 10-year track record, AC has a tenured team with the relationships and experience to meet the increasing environmental and economic needs of regenerative farmers.
Farmland has historically been limited to farmers and institutional investors. It is an asset class that can provide stability, an inflation hedge, and compelling risk adjusted returns (especially in a diversified portfolio). The research and due diligence we’ve conducted over the past year and a half indicates that all those qualities are enhanced by properly executed regenerative farming strategies. I really believe that farmland, and specifically Regenerative Farmland, will be a core real estate holding for investors over time. For the first time, AC has structured their 3rd fund to allow RIAs and MFOs to allocate alongside institutional investors and in an evergreen structure.
Regenerative farming is about restoring soil and ecosystem health with the goal of simultaneously increasing profits, stewardship, and mitigating risks. We are barely in the first inning of the transition to regenerative farming. With the data and stories to support the thesis that we’ve acquired, we believe there is a significant opportunity.
