Fields, Farms, and Financing: Agriculture Investing with Your Self-Directed IRA.
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Where:https://americanira.com/harvest/
Cost:Free
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American IRA will be hosting Chris Rawley of Harvest Returns for a webinar on agricultural investing and its potential role in a diversified Self-Directed IRA. Chris will explore opportunities in farmland ownership, livestock operations, and agricultural lending, while explaining how private capital supports American farmers and agribusinesses.
The discussion explores how agricultural investments are evaluated, including operator experience, collateral, leverage, fees, and liquidity. Attendees will also learn important due diligence questions to ask, key risks involving weather, disease, and commodity prices, and how to assess whether agricultural investments align with their long-term retirement goals.
What You’ll Learn
Understand Agriculture’s Role: Learn why Chris calls agriculture the world’s most important industry: everyone has to eat. He will explain how farms, ranches, and agribusinesses generate returns through crops, livestock, leases, and loans, with historically little correlation to the stock market. He will also discuss an industry where about 95% of American farms are family-owned and the average producer is 58.1 years old.
Explore the Investment Options: Discover three ways passive investors participate in agriculture: owning farmland, backing businesses such as livestock operations, and lending to producers. Chris will explain how private capital can fill gaps in traditional farm financing while farmers retain control. He will also cover why private credit deals differ and how collateral, leverage, and liquidity terms affect their resilience when the economy turns.
Evaluate the Opportunity: Learn why Harvest Returns underwrites the operator first and what separates strong farm and ranch operators from weak ones. Chris will share questions about performance in bad years, fees, operator compensation, and investment lockup periods. He will also discuss weather, disease, and commodity price risks, explaining why he advises most people to keep agricultural positions small or skip them.
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Save the Date: October 28th at 12:00 PM ET