BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATION |
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| Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] | |
| BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATION | BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATION Business and Organization
Gladstone Land Corporation (“we,” “us,” or the “Company”) is an agricultural real estate investment trust (“REIT”) that was re-incorporated in Maryland on March 24, 2011, having been originally incorporated in California on June 14, 1997. We are primarily in the business of owning and leasing farmland, including through lease structures with a variable rent component based on the gross revenues generated from certain farms in lieu of fixed base rent. From time to time, and on a temporary basis, we may also directly operate certain of our farms via management agreements with third-party operators and/or through a taxable REIT subsidiary (“TRS”). As of December 31, 2025, we owned 144 farms totaling 98,688 acres across 14 states in the U.S. and 55,532 acre-feet of water assets in California. In addition, as of December 31, 2025, two of our properties (comprising four farms) were directly operated by us.
We conduct substantially all of our operations through a subsidiary, Gladstone Land Limited Partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), a Delaware limited partnership. As we currently control the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership and own, directly or indirectly, a majority of the common units of limited partnership interest in the Operating Partnership (“OP Units”), the financial position and results of operations of the Operating Partnership are consolidated within our financial statements. As of each of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company owned all of the outstanding OP Units.
Gladstone Land Advisers, Inc. (“Land Advisers”), a Delaware corporation and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of ours, was created to collect any non-qualifying income related to our real estate portfolio and to perform certain small-scale farming business operations. We have elected for Land Advisers to be taxed as a TRS of ours. Since we currently indirectly own 100% of the voting securities of Land Advisers, its financial position and results of operations are consolidated within our financial statements. For each of the tax years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, there was no taxable income or loss from Land Advisers, nor did we have any undistributed REIT taxable income.
Subject to certain restrictions and limitations, and pursuant to contractual agreements, our business is managed by Gladstone Management Corporation (our “Adviser”), a Delaware corporation, and administrative services are provided to us by Gladstone Administration, LLC (our “Administrator”), a Delaware limited liability company. Our Adviser and Administrator are both affiliates of ours (see Note 8, “Related-Party Transactions,” for additional discussion regarding our Adviser and Administrator).
All further references herein to “we,” “us,” “our,” and the “Company” refer, collectively, to Gladstone Land Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries, except where indicated otherwise.
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