Farmland Partners Inc.

Good day, and welcome to the Farmland Partners Incorporated Third Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in a 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. Please note that this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Paul Pittman, President and CEO. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you. Good morning and welcome to Farmland Partners third quarter 2020 earnings conference call and webcast. We appreciate you taking the time to join us for these calls. We see them as a very important opportunity to share with you our thinking and our strategy in a format less formal and more interactive than public filings and press releases. With me this morning is Luca Fabri, the company's chief financial officer. I will now turn over the call to Luca for some customary preliminary remarks.

Thanks, Paul, and thank you to all of you who are listening to this webcast, either live or recorded. The press release announcing our third quarter earnings was distributed earlier this morning. A replay of this call will be available shortly after the conclusion of the call through November 19, 2020. The phone numbers to access the replay are provided in the earnings press release. For those who listened to the rebroadcast of this presentation, we remind you that the remarks made herein are as of today, November 9, 2020, and have not been updated subsequent to this initial earnings call. During this call, we will make forward-looking statements, including statements related to the future performance of our portfolio, our identified and potential acquisitions and dispositions, impact of acquisitions, dispositions and financing activities, business development opportunities, as well as comments on our outlook for our business, rent, and the broader agricultural markets. We will also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures, including net operating income, FFO, adjusted FFO, EBITDA REIT, and adjusted EBITDA REIT. Definitions of these non-GAAP measures, as well as reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures, are included in the company's press release announcing third quarter earnings. which is available on our website www.farmlandpartners.com and is furnished as an exhibit to our current report on Form 8K dated November 9, 2020. Listeners are cautioned that these statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond our control. These risks and uncertainties can cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations And we advise listeners to review the risk factors discussed in our press release yesterday after market close, sorry, this morning before market open, and in documents we have filed with or furnished to the SEC. I would like now to turn the call back to our chairman and CEO, Paul Pinman. Paul?