Farmland Partners Inc.

Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Farmland Partners, Inc. Second Quarter 2021 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. To ask a question, you may press star, then one. Please note that this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Paul Pittman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead. Thank you.

Good morning and welcome to Farmland Partners second quarter 2021 earnings conference call and webcast. We appreciate you taking the time to join us for these calls. They're a very important opportunity to share with you our thinking and our strategy in a less formal format than public filings and press releases. With me today is Luca Fabri, the company's chief financial officer. I will now turn it over to Luca for some customary preliminary remarks.

Thank you, Paul. Thanks to everybody who's on this call live this morning or is listening to this call's recording. The second quarter earnings press release went out yesterday afternoon. This call is being recorded and the replay will be available shortly after the end through August 15, 2021. The phone numbers to access the replay are provided in the earnings press release. For those of you who are listening to the rebroadcast of this presentation, please remember that the remarks made herein as of today, August 5, 2021, and have not been updated subsequent to this initial earnings call. In this call, we will make certain forward-looking statements, including statements related to the future performance of our portfolio, our identified and potential acquisitions and dispositions, the impact of acquisitions, dispositions, and financing activities, business development opportunities, and we'll also make some comments on our outlook for our business, rents, and the broader agricultural markets. We will also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures, including net operating income, FFO, adjusted FFO, EBITDA RE, and adjusted EBITDA RE. 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 second 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 August 4th, 2021. 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 and in documents we have filed with or furnished to the SEC. I would now like to turn the call back to our Chairman and CEO, Paul Pinman. Paul?