Crowdfunding for Indoor Agriculture
In our partnership with Agritecture, Harvest Returns is excited to offer growers $500 off their listing fee when sponsoring a capital raise on the platform. Apply for funding to get started.
Agricultural Financing in an Evolving Globalized Marketplace
We understand American farmers need every cutting edge they can get today, on the production side and on the finance side. Increasingly, they’re competing not just with the farm in the next state and county, but with farms in emerging countries. The agricultural industry, especially growers, must evolve to fit with today’s globalized marketplace. And that’s where we come in to help.
A New Way to Raise Capital for Agriculture
Farmers often need capital to expand their operations or acquire new growing space. Most farmers automatically seek ag credit lenders for capital, because it’s what we all know as a traditional funding source. But there are other ways besides bank loans to receive the needed capital. The use of equity partners in crowdfunding is an alternate way to finance land acquisition.
What's an equity partnership?
In crowdfunding, an equity partnership generally consists of a general partner (GP), or an active investor, and limited partners (LP), or passive investors. The GP makes all the decisions on operating an investment while the LPs simply invest money passively and collect returns from harvests or rents. Simply put, the farmers and ranchers are the GP who keeps the operation running however they choose, while the investors are the LPs who have no say in the operation, and help bring capital to the farm and receive returns from harvests.
For more information on how Harvest Returns’ platform can help you, take a look at our How Our Platform Works page.
Capital Raise Process
1) Application
2) Due Diligence
If your project meets our requirements, we will request additional documents to learn more about your project. A clear and transparent business plan coupled with organized and complete financial projections are the best starting point.
3) Listing Agreement
The agreement lays out the terms of the crowdfunding raise and what you can expect from the process as far as time, effort, and costs to you.
4) Live on Platform
After the project is set up and ready for investors, it goes live on the platform to accept investments from qualified investors. Harvest Returns will work to help you maximize the chances of a successful raise and maintain compliance with U.S. Securities regulations.
5) Close Raise & Receive Funds
You will receive the funds after the raise has successfully closed. You will work with Harvest Returns over the course of the operation to keep investors updated, provide financial statements and tax documents, and make investor distributions.