S&W Seed Company

Good morning and welcome to the S&W Seed Company third quarter fiscal year 2023 financial results conference call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star then 2. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Robert Bloom with Litham Partners. Please go ahead.

All right. Thank you for joining us today to discuss S&W Seed Company's third quarter fiscal year 2023 financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. With us on the call representing the company today are Mark Wong, President and Chief Executive Officer, Betsy Horton, Chief Financial Officer, and Vanessa Bowman, the company's Interim Chief Financial Officer. At the conclusion of today's prepared remarks, we will open the call for a question and answer session. Before we begin with prepared remarks, please note that statements made by the management team of S&W Seed Company during the course of this conference call may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act 1933 as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act 1934 as amended, and such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as may, future, plan or planned, will or should, expected, anticipates, draft, eventually, or projected. Listeners are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors and other risks identified in the company's 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022, and other filings subsequently made by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition to supplement S&W's financial results reported in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAP, SNW will be discussing adjusted operating expenses and adjusted EBITDA on this call. These non-GAAP financial measures are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the comparable GAAP measure and are not prepared under any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles. A description of adjusted operating expenses and adjusted EBITDA And reconciliations of historical adjusted operating expense and adjusted EBITDA to net loss are included at the end of S&W's earnings release issued earlier today, which we have been posted on the investor relations page of S&W's website. An audio recording and webcast replay for today's conference call will also be available online and on the company's investor relations page. With that said, let me turn the call over to Mark Wong, Chief Executive Officer for S&W Seed Company.

Mark?