Fayetteville's AcreTrader, an online farmland investing brokerage, announced Thursday that the company’s proprietary real estate investing platform grew 12 times last year.

• AcreTrader was founded in 2019 and has already accepted investors from 48 states, doubled its employee count to 25, and confirmed 500 investor distributions in December 2020 - growing well into the tens of millions. - Talk Business & Politics
• CEO Carter Malloy said this unpredictable year has led investors to seek out other options beyond the traditional stock market.

• Want more? According to the company, farmland investments have generated over 11 percent average returns for the last 30 years with lower volatility than most other asset classes. Malloy said those statistics are pushing continual appreciation of the asset class. -Talk Business & Politics