DENVER, March 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmland Partners
Inc. (NYSE: FPI) ("the Company") announced that its Board of
Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per common share and per Class A Common OP
unit. The dividends are payable on April 15, 2019, to stockholders and unit holders
of record on April 1, 2019.
The Company also announced today that its Board of Directors has
declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.3750 per share of Series B Participating
Preferred Stock. The dividends are payable on April 1, 2019, to holders of Series B
Participating Preferred Stock of record on March 15, 2019.
About Farmland Partners Inc.
Farmland Partners Inc. is an internally managed real estate
company that owns and seeks to acquire high-quality North American
farmland and makes loans to farmers secured by farm real estate. As
of the date of this release, the Company owns approximately 162,000
acres in 17 states, including Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, North
Carolina, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Texas and Virginia. We have approximately 30 crop types
and over 100 tenants. The Company elected to be taxed as a real
estate investment trust, or REIT, for U.S. federal income tax
purposes, commencing with the taxable year ended December 31, 2014.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of the federal securities laws, including, without
limitation, statements with respect to proposed and pending
acquisitions, financing activities, crop yields and prices and
anticipated rental rates. Forward-looking statements generally can
be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as
"may," "should," "could," "would," "predicts," "potential,"
"continue," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans,"
"believes," "estimates" or similar expressions or their negatives,
as well as statements in future tense. Although the Company
believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking
statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, beliefs and
expectations, such forward-looking statements are not predictions
of future events or guarantees of future performance and our actual
results could differ materially from those set forth in the
forward-looking statements. Some factors that might cause such a
difference include the following: general volatility of the capital
markets and the market price of the Company's common stock or
Series B participating preferred stock, changes in the Company's
business strategy, availability, terms and deployment of capital,
the Company's ability to refinance existing indebtedness at or
prior to maturity on favorable terms, or at all, availability of
qualified personnel, changes in the Company's industry, interest
rates or the general economy, adverse developments related to crop
yields or crop prices, the degree and nature of the Company's
competition, the timing, price or amount of repurchases, if any,
under the Company's share repurchase program, the ability to
consummate acquisitions under contract and the other factors
described in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in our Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016, and our other filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking
information presented herein is made only as of the date of this
press release, and we do not undertake any obligation to update or
revise any forward-looking information to reflect changes in
assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, or
otherwise.
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