Resource’s Investments in food have spanned row crop agriculture, vine and tree plantings, conventional and organic sites, and both leased and directly operated investments.  The Firm is often investing in properties that lack the appropriate infrastructure to maximize their productive and financial capacity and, in partnership with local management teams, is restoring the productive capacity of the property.  Commodity offtake agreements are important to Resource and are pursued with regional and national packers, processors, and marketers to provide greater stability and financial visibility to the operation.

Throughout its portfolio of natural resource real estate, Resource has repeatedly found opportunities to capture and monetize dormant conservation and ecological values.  By identifying, preferably early in the property’s ownership, the potential for conservation, the Firm has been able to work alongside several national and local conservation-oriented organizations to sell portions of diverse property types into permanent conservation holdings.  To unlock ecological assets, which often require additional investment, permitting, construction, and long-term monitoring, Resource has partnered with several leaders in this field to permit, construct and sell ecological assets throughout its portfolio.

Resource’s approach to timberland combines an opportunistic view toward acquisitions with aggressive management of both timber harvests and asset resales.  Since Fund I, the Firm has acquired assets across the Pacific Northwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Eastern Canada, spanning hardwoods and softwoods.  Early into most hold periods, Resource begins selling non-core real estate holdings even while managing widespread timber sales across the recently acquired landscape.

Historically, Resource has acquired large, rural landscapes that are adjacent to or sometimes overlap with its core investment targets of agriculture, timberland, and ecological and water assets. These opportunistic assets include large ranch and pasture properties, sites that are suited for power generation such as wind and solar, properties with imbedded conservation values, projects in need of environmental remediation, midstream-agriculture, resort, residential, commercial uses, and industrial uses.

With a corporate history rooted in agriculture, Resource has always held a deep appreciation for the value of water since the Firm’s earliest days.  Initially, water rights, transmission capacity, and in certain instances, water storage capabilities were primarily intrinsic components of sustainable agricultural production.  Over time, however, Resource realized that incisive, responsible management, coupled with an eye toward conservation, could allow the Firm’s management teams to identify and potentially increase the independent value of excess water or water assets otherwise not fully utilized on traditional farming operations.