Macfarlan Capital Partners, a private equity investment sponsor focused on farmland investments, has purchased 7,109 acres of farmland in Poplar, Mont.
Poplar Farm is located in the center of Roosevelt County, Mont., west of the Poplar River, within the soils of the Prairie Pothole Region. The acquisition is part of the farmland investment initiative MCP started in 2021 to bring access to direct farmland deals to investors. The deal brings MCP’s total farmland holdings to over 25,000 acres.
“This has been a tumultuous time for our economy, and as a result, we’ve seen more investors seek out alternative investments that may not correlate with traditional assets,” says Trevor Hightower, partner at MCP. “Farmland investing has historically been a proven way to diversify and hedge against inflation with low volatility.”