Gladstone Land Corporation

Greetings and welcome to the Gladstone Land Corporation first quarter earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, David Gladstone, Chief Executive Officer. Thank you, sir. You may begin.

Well, thank you, LaTanya. That was a nice introduction. And this is, as she said, David Gladstone. We welcome you all to the quarterly conference call for Gladstone Land. Thank you all for calling in today. We appreciate you taking time out of your day to listen to our presentation. Before I begin, we're going to start with Michael LaCalce. He's our general counsel. And Michael, go ahead.

Thanks, David. Today's report may include forward-looking statements under the Securities Act of 1933. and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including those regarding our future performance. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that are based on our current plans, which we believe to be reasonable. Now, many factors may cause our actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, including all the risk factors in our Forms 10-K and 10-Q and other documents that we file with the SEC. You can find them on our website, which is www.gladstoneland.com. Specifically, go to the investors page, or you can find them on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Now, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any of these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law. Now, today we'll discuss FFO, which is funds from operations. FFO is a non-GAAP accounting term defined as net income, excluding the gains or losses from the sale of real estate... and any impairment losses from property, plus depreciation and amortization of real estate assets. Now, we may also discuss core FFO, which we generally define as FFO adjusted for certain non-recurring revenues and expenses, and adjusted FFO, which further adjusts core FFO for certain non-cash items, such as converting gap rents to normalized cash rents. Now, we believe these are better indications of our operating results and allow for better comparability of our period-over-period performance. Please visit our website. Once again, that's GladstoneLand.com. Sign up for our email notification service. You can also find us on Facebook. Keyword there is the Gladstone Companies. We're also on Twitter, and that's at GladstoneComps. Today's call is simply an overview of our results, so we ask that you review our press release and our Form 10-Q, both issued yesterday. for more detailed information. Now, with that, I'm going to turn it back over to David Gladstone. David?