Oaken

Oaken is excited to be part of SVG Ventures | THRIVE Academy V Cohort with some amazing agtech companies from around the world. Find out more about this program and some of the other companies below!

Oaken's mission is to make farmland management and financing as straightforward as managing stocks/ equity. Our initial services focused on farmland management for farmers and farmland managers. Our most recent partnership with Sower | Legacy Farmland Fund brings us closer to realizing our vision by making it easier for our customers to manage their most valuable asset, farmland. We look forward to working with more partners in the future to add to this portfolio of service offerings and bringing our vision to fruition.

🦃✨ Reflecting on our journey over the past year, there's so much to be thankful for. Our incredible customers, dedicated investors, and all the amazing supporters who have been with us every step of the way. We're especially grateful for the people who joined us, lending their hands and hearts to our mission. On this Thanksgiving Day, we give our sincerest thanks to each and every one of you who have shaped our thinking and helped us reach this milestone. Here's to the future, and many more shared successes! 🍁🙏 #Thankful #Gratitude #Thanksgiving #CompanyJourney #CommunitySupport

The recent $289 million sale of 46 farms across eight states by Farmland Partners Inc. to Farmland Reserve Inc. (the real estate arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) is a MONSTER move in the usually quiet world of farmland investing. This transaction is a case study of farmland’s strength as a "total return" investment. Here’s why… Farmland Partners' President and CEO, Luca Fabbri, stated: “Farmland is a 'total return' investment, with asset appreciation typically accounting for a majority of the overall return. We have consistently advised shareholders that our company is undervalued due to lack of recognition by the market of the appreciation in our asset base.” I read this sale as a way for Farmland Partners to prove its long-term investment thesis. Farmland offers unique value, building wealth through both cash flow and land appreciation. But this requires a special kind of patience and a long-term vision. For investors with a 15+ year horizon, the rewards can be substantial. (This transaction resulted in a $50 million gain — approximately 21% over the aggregate net book value of the farms.) Good news for our north-central Iowa landowners: Farmland Partners kept its Illinois farmland, which it notes is "among the most valuable land that it owns.”

Oaken was at the SVG Ventures | THRIVE event in Calgary, Canada earlier this week. We were happy to be part of Cohort 5 with a group of incredible companies as we continue our journey.

We are elated to welcome Natasha Cox, regional vice president of agricultural lending at Farm Credit Mid-America, and Howard Halderman, president of Halderman Real Estate and Farm Management + board representative for Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership, to our board of directors. Please help us give Natasha + Howard a warm #agbioscience welcome! Learn more about our recent additions + changes: https://lnkd.in/giurM-6K

Exciting news! Oaken is enhancing its services to simplify farmland management and financing. We're thrilled to announce our partnership with Sower | Legacy Farmland Fund to bring the 721 exchange for farmland to our platform. This simple and powerful tool offers farmers and landowners a straightforward, flexible solution for estate planning and land transition. With Oaken, you can connect with trusted advisors from Sower and manage the process and documentation seamlessly. Discover more about this new feature through the link below! 🌾📈  #FarmlandManagement #EstatePlanning #AgTech #721forfarmland

Today and every day we thank Veterans everywhere for their service! #veteransday

Kassi Tom-Rowland’s from Tom Farms shares some of the benefits, she has personally experienced in using Oaken. Download the full case study below.

Farmdoc's latest analysis talks about some of the tactics that farm operations can undertake for reductions across all cost categories, especially land costs. "While most operations entered into the current environment with very strong financial positions, the large negative margins since 2023 suggest that larger and more difficult cost adjustments will need to be made to achieve break-even or positive return outcomes, provided current expectations are realized." Read more below