U.S. farmland investment has historically yielded impressive returns and been a reliable portfolio diversifier. But it’s been prohibitively expensive and for all but institutional investors to access. A new venture capital-funded platform, AcreTrader, hopes to change that dynamic, by making farm investment more broadly accessible to investors through fractional ownership. The firm’s founder and CEO, Carter Malloy, talks to Investable Universe about how new funding mechanisms can enhance U.S. farms’ access to capital, and about his journey from Arkansas farm child to long-short equity fund investor, and back to agricultural finance entrepreneurship.