New Farmland Investment Funds to Launch in a Near Perfect Storm

The following current events create a near “perfect storm” for the launch of American Farmland
Partners’ Agricultural Real Estate Investment Funds (see news release below): Inflationary
concerns, Continued economic uncertainty and market fluctuations, Global loss of millions of acres
of farmland each year from urbanization and climate change, Generation of U.S. farmers reaching
retirement and looking for liquidity and more.

Lisle, IL, May 02, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Farmers and landowners now have an alternative to simply selling
their farmland for cash thanks to Nicholas Hindman and his team of agricultural and investment
specialists. Hindman is a CPA and financial expert who grew up on an Iowa farm. Hindman and his team
have spent the last 2 ½ years interviewing hundreds of farmers.

Hindman has just launched two funds 1. American Farmland Partners (AFP) and 2. American Farmland
Partners Corporation (AFPC) which acquire farmland using securities instead of cash. Farmers who need
or want cash may opt for a combination of stock or partnership interests (depending on the state the farm
is located in) and up to 40% cash. Non-land-owning investors may invest cash in either AFP or AFPC.

Acquisitions done with a security only, and not cash, allow farmers to avoid any current tax.

An important consideration given the fact that many farmers and land owners have had their farms passed
down through their families or purchased them many years ago and probably have a very low basis.

The best part of Hindman's structure is that participating farmers and/or their heirs, may continue to
occupy and operate their farms, benefiting both from the financial results of not only their operations but
those of the other farms owned by the funds located in other geographic areas.

Hindman says, "Farmers get the liquidity they need and want while giving investors the opportunity to
invest in agriculture in a way that they can't get anywhere else. And, we're keeping America's remaining
farmland in the hands of the people who have stewarded it so well for generations.

"We believe we're going to play a significant role in domestic farmland acquisitions for the foreseeable
future when farmers and their accountants, financial advisors and estate planners do the math and
compare the numbers.

"The difference between what we offer and what they get if they sell to anyone else is significant; paying
a capital gains tax, investing the net dollars and not participating in the future income and farmland value
appreciation vs. no immediate capital gains tax, potentially increasing the value of the farm by making it
a part of a publicly traded consolidation of independent growers and participating in long term income
growth and appreciation."

Hindman adds, "As a farmer or land owner, why would you sell to some big insurance company, foreign
government or faceless agricultural real estate investment fund when you can gain this kind of financial

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flexibility with other farmers just like yourself through American Farmland Partners?"

Keeping the farmers involved also allows AFP and AFPC to lower acquisitions costs as these Funds are
seen as “friendlies” not someone there to grab the farmers land from them.

Managerial expenses should also be lower and the preservation of the underlying asset is more likely than
with other Funds that simply rent purchased farmland because Hindman's farmers still have a vested
interest, something other Funds can't say.

Hindman continues, "Other Funds may try to imitate us, but no other Fund in existence has the foothold
we have with the farmers. Our management team is made up financial people, people from agriculture
and farmers, who still farm, yet have the sophistication and depth of also having other agricultural
businesses that complement their farming operations. Collectively they have thousands of farmers as
friends, clients and possible acquisition targets. These men also see what has been occurring in
agriculture, with the consolidation of seed companies, machinery dealerships, ag retailers, grain
processing facilities, etc.

"Our Board believes that independent grain farmers will benefit in much the same way as 'Big Ag' has by
pooling their own farmland, increasing market share, reducing expenses, and raising revenues and profits.
This group, through collective bargaining and a moderate policy of production and supply control could
influence the prices of the commodities they produce. In addition, pooled bulk input purchases will
reduce production costs and increase revenues for both farmers and cash investors."

Hindman says, "Participating farmers won't be giving up their farms. They'll just be changing the manner
in which they own the farms. And, our cash investors will end up owning a share of some very expensive
real estate, bought right, from farmers who want to be a part of our deal. It will all be managed with low
expenses. Based on the reaction we've already gotten we're expecting a great deal of participation from
both farmers and investors."

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Contact Information:
Farmland Marketing Group
Todd Dyer
866-800-7039 ex. 40
FarmlandMarketing@gmail.com
farmlandmarketinggroup.com
Interviews with American Farmland Partners Founder Nicholas C. Hindman, Sr. may be arranged through
Todd Dyer of The Farmland Marketing Group www.FarmlandMarketingGroup.com.

Online Version of Press Release:

You can read the online version of this press release at: http://www.pr.com/press-release/317738

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