Farmland Partners Inc.

Good morning. Thank you for attending today's Farmland Partners Q1 2022 earnings call. My name is Bethany and I will be your moderator for today's call. All lines will be muted during the presentation portion of the call with an opportunity for questions and answers at the end. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. I would now like to pass the conference over to our host, Paul Pittman, Chairman and CEO with Farmland Partners. Please go ahead.

Good morning and welcome to Farmland Partners first quarter 2022 earnings conference call and webcast. We appreciate you taking the time to join us for these calls because 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. I will now turn over the call to our CFO, James Gilligan, for some customary preliminary remarks. James?

JAMES GILLIGAN, Thank you, Paul, and thank you to everyone on the call. The press release announcing our first quarter earnings was distributed yesterday afternoon. The supplemental package was posted to the investor relations section of our website under the subheader presentations and other materials yesterday afternoon as well. For those who listened to the recording of this presentation, we remind you that the remarks made herein are as of today, May 4, 2022, and will not be updated subsequent to this 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, rents, and the broader agricultural markets. We will also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures, including net operating income, FFO, adjusted FFO, EBIT.RE, and adjusted EBIT.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 first quarter earnings, which is available on our website, farmlandpartners.com, and is furnished as an exhibit to our current report on Form 8-K dated May 3, 2022. 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 distributed yesterday and in documents we have filed with or furnished to the SEC. I would now like to turn the call to our Chairman and CEO, Paul Pittman. Paul?