Ceres Partners is a specialist investment manager focused exclusively on food and agriculture. Ceres Partners manages two investment vehicles with distinct strategies and investment objectives, one of which is Ceres Farms, LLC. Launched in 2007, Ceres Farms is a co-mingled investment fund that acquires U.S. farmland, which it then leases to independent family farming operations. Ceres Farms currently owns over 90,000 acres across ten states. At September 30, 2016 Ceres Farms had total assets of $527 million. Ceres Farms’ investment objectives are to provide income and capital appreciation, with low volatility and low correlation to other asset classes.