What If the Farmer Was Your Investment Partner, Not Your Tenant?

The Midwest is one of the most climate-adaptive regions on earth, yet most of its acres remain untouched by regenerative transition. Not because the science doesn’t work, but because the capital model doesn’t.

When farmers become tenants, they optimize for rent, not soil. The buy-land, lease-it-back model erodes the operator commitment that climate resilience requires.

This session brings together a Minnesota farmer, a Midwest-rooted institutional investor, and Fractal Ag to explore a different model farmers hold equity, regen incentives are built into the deal, and allocators gain exposure to a climate-resilient real asset.

We’ll put a question to the room: what has to be true for you to partner with an operator, not manage one?