Scythe & Spade Hires West Coast Regional Manager
We are excited to announce the addition of our new West Coast Regional Manager, Brent Reed, to the Scythe and Spade family. As an accomplished leader, Brent brings 30 years of experience working in Agribusiness capital markets and the farmland asset class.
Brent Reed
West Coast Regional Manager
Brent has 30 years’ of experience working in agribusiness capital markets and the farmland asset class.
His first 19 years were devoted to the debt side of the capital markets through institutional financing of large agricultural farming and dairy operations in Central California. In his roles as a lender and manager of acquisitions, Brent underwrote and appraised thousands of acres throughout Arizona and California. He has a great understanding of how water, micro-climates, soils and macro/ micro agricultural economic factors impact income streams and farm asset values.
Over the last decade Brent devoted his time to the equity side of capital markets through institutional acquisitions of large farmland holdings in California and the Pacific Northwest. In his role as an Associate Director/Senior Acquisitions Manager at Manulife Investment Management Company (formally Hancock Natural Resource Group), Brent managed acquisition activities primarily in the West and Pacific Northwest where he acquired and directly developed diversified agricultural portfolios of tree nuts, wine grapes, citrus and irrigated row crops totaling over 25,000 acres at a value of $500 million dollars. Under Brent’s leadership at Hancock, the portfolio grew to four billion dollars across the United States. Brent has experience in all the major ag regions of the US, both acquiring and divesting assets.
Brent developed an interest in agriculture at an early age, growing up on his family’s farm near Porterville, California in Tulare County. Brent is a third-generation farmer in California and began his career just as the industry was coming out of the farm crisis in the early 1990’s. With direct experience in production agriculture, he understands the complicated cycles of the industry and is extremely knowledgeable about California’s water resources and the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA).
Brent earned a BS in Agricultural Business from California State University of Fresno, is a licensed California Real Estate salesperson (DRE#01751246) and holds an Accredited Agricultural Consultant designation from the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraiser. He also served as a board member/treasurer for the Ag Lenders Society of California.
