Crowdfunding for agriculture
Raise Capital for Your Farm, Ranch, or Agribusiness
Raise Capital for Your Farm, Ranch, or Agribusiness
“The entire Harvest Returns team ran a thorough and efficient fundraising process that allowed Precision Livestock to tap into the high level of interest in the agricultural community to provide practical solutions to the livestock industry.”
Agricultural Financing in an Evolving Globalized Marketplace
We understand American farmers and ranchers need every cutting edge they can get today in every aspect of business - including finance. 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 producers, 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, ranchers, and agribusinesses often need capital to expand their operations or acquire new land. 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.
For more information on how Harvest Returns’ platform can help you, take a look at our How Our Platform Works page.
Who should raise capital with Harvest Returns?
Experienced farmers, growers, ranchers, and landowners interested in expanding their operations or acquiring new land.
Young farmers who have trouble getting traditional ag credit and want to get their own piece of land or buy out siblings on a multi-generational farm.
Livestock ranchers who want flexible financing to grow their herds.
Established agribusinesses that need outside capital to expand their operations or develop value-added processing facilities.
Controlled Environment Agriculture developers.
Early stage Agtech companies raising a seed round (our average check size is $500,000).
Why raise capital with us?
Cost of capital is competitive with placement agents or other funding platforms.
We offer creative funding solutions involving debt or equity.
Accept capital from multiple investors from one entity on your Cap Table.
We handle investor relations - You focus on your business, and we maintain communications with all of the investors.
Encourage the average consumer to care about agriculture.
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.
Interested in learning more about the capital raise process? Have questions?
Send an email to: submissions@harvestreturns.com
“Harvest Returns has an extensive vetting process This process challenges the entrepreneur and helps us to recognize risks and make appropriate adjustments to the financial projections, which is in the best interest of Harvest Returns, the investors, and the entrepreneur. Harvest Returns has a large pool of investors with capital ready to be deployed for high-quality business opportunities. Sage Green’s deal had a compressed timeline to raise funds. Harvest Returns met the deadline and solicited investors quickly.”
“ We are very pleased with the results of our partnership with Harvest Returns as it provided access to a base of investors outside Blackdirt’s existing network and proved to be an effective platform for raising capital. We look forward to working with the Harvest Returns team again in the future.”
“The entire process with the team at Harvest Returns was exceptional. From our initial consultations, to structuring, to the raise itself and finally with a successful close, we always felt we were well taken care of and that the team had our best interests in mind. As a former financier myself, I understand the amount of pressure the team was under, especially given the current economic climate. In this challenging and unprecedented times, we are grateful that there are companies like HR out there who are looking out for regenerative farmers and their financing needs!”
