Farm Raised Capital

Guest: Mike Downey

• Like many, Mike was farm raised but his family farm was not large enough to support him joining it full time. He has a passion for farms and farmland, and has spent the last 20 plus years working in the agricultural industry consulting with farmers and landowners. 
• 2018: he left a successful career in the farm management & real estate field to join Next Gen Ag Advocates as one of the founding owners
• Next Gen: Mike specializes in helping family farms with their family farm transitions, estate and legacy planning, and they oversee a matching and mentoring program to connect young and aspiring farmers to retiring farmers without a successor.
• Farm Raised platform: to help others in the agricultural community create off-farm income, tax benefits, and build equity through investing together passively in proven, recession proof commercial real estate properties.
• Who is Farm Raised Capital?
• History, Mission, Vision
• It’s essentially a platform for the Ag community to invest together passively to create off-farm income & diversify using alternative real estate investments 
• How can an individual join this community? 
• What are the incentives? 
• With the platform, how are you making it user friendly to all individuals? Older generations?
• Why partner with Farm Raised Capital? 
• What has the company done to get to where they are today? 
• Farm Raised Capital platform
• How has progress come since the beginning?
• What impact will this project have on buying farmland 
• Why is it such a focus now?
• How will this help farmers?
• Real estate syndication
• Why are you seeing an increase in syndications?
• Why are we not seeing everyone investing in a syndication?
• What are the main risks with this type of investing?
• Future of investing together passively
• What is your goal long term? 
• Leverage the equity from commercial real estate to support our goal in buying farmland 
• Where do you see the growth going this year?
• Impact investing
• How are you investing back into the community?
• Donate a portion of the profits to benefit young and aspiring farmers looking for opportunities to get into production agriculture
• What are you most excited for in the future?
• Farm Raised Capital
• What challenges do you face ahead?
• How will these affect your timeline?
• What is at stake if this program fails?
• What can we and our listeners do to help?
• What did we miss?
• What does success look like to you?
• Summary and Challenge