AgReserves

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AgReserves Inc.
Company type Private company
Industry Agriculture
Founded1950;74 years ago (1950)
Headquarters
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
,
United States
Key people
Doug Rose (CEO), Gérald Caussé (Presiding Bishop)
ProductsAgricultural land owner
Owner LDS Church
Website www.agreserves.com

AgReserves, Inc. (AgReserves) is a multinational agriculture for-profit company ultimately owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is speculated that AgReserves holds the "most valuable private real estate portfolio in the U.S." [1]

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AgReserves' three divisions operate in more than 30 states and international operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The three divisions include Ranches (dairy and beef with integrated supply chain trace-ability), Permanent Plantings (farming of almonds, pistachios, walnuts, pecan, olives, citrus), and Row Crops (farming of corn, wheat, alfalfa, carrots, corn, peas, onions, potatoes). As of 2021, Doug Rose is the CEO of AgReserves. [2] [3]

Deseret Ranches, part of the Ranches division of AgReserves, encompasses 295,000-acres and extends across Orange, Osceola and Brevard counties and is seen as critical to the Orlando region's water supply. [4] The ranch is home to about a quarter million citrus trees, timberland, tree farms, commercial crops, and large deposits of fossilized seashells used in road base. [5]

In 2013 AgReserves purchased 382,834 acres from St. Joe Company in Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty and Wakulla counties. [4] The land, primarily timberland, was purchased for $565 million. [6] [7] As of 2014, the LDS Church was Florida's largest private landowner. [8] AgReserves also owns substantial agricultural land in the United Kingdom. [9] In 2020, AgReserves sold more than 20,000 acres of land surrounding Lake Wimico in Florida to The Nature Conservancy who then donated the land to the state and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. [3] [10]

Associated Business Units

The AgReserves primary website does not provide information on the operating arms or the regional distinctions of its subsidiary business units. The confusion can be illustrated by an article [11] referencing the Easterday Companies purchase where the Farmland Reserves is depicted as a parent company of AgReserves, and AgriNorthwest is a subsidiary of one of the two. In reality, AgriNorthwest is a subsidiary of Ag Reserves. Farmland Reserves owns the land and leases it to Ag Reserves who then, through its subsidiaries farms the land. A list of subsidiaries of Ag Reserves in the USA is on its website in the about section.

Businesses Related to AgReserves or other agricultural business units of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints include the following:

United States

Outside of the United States

See also

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  2. ↑ "Our executive leadership team has been with AgReserves for a combined 87 years of service". AgReserves. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  3. 1 2 Croft, Tim. "Nature Conservancy purchases land at Lake Wimico", Gannett , 12 February 2020. Retrieved on 12 March 2020.
  4. 1 2 Spear, Kevin. "Mormon church-owned company buys huge swath of Florida land", Orlando Sentinel , 7 November 2013. Retrieved on 11 March 2020.
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