Scythe & Spade Hires Delta Regional Director

We are excited to announce the addition of our new Delta Regional Director, Addison Taylor, to the Scythe and Spade family. As an accomplished leader, Addison has extensive experience sourcing and acquiring Investment Grade Farmland and has closed deals totaling over 80,000 acres over a period of eight years with a book value of over $300 million dollars.

Addison Taylor

Delta Regional Director

Agriculture has always been part of Addison’s daily life, having grown up on his family’s farming operation in Arkansas and developed an outstanding career in farmland real estate investing throughout the United States.

Addison has extensive experience sourcing and acquiring Investment Grade Farmland in all major production regions of the U.S., most recently with Manulife Investment Management Company (formally Hancock Natural Resource Group). He has sourced, managed due diligence and closed opportunities in irrigated row crops, vegetables and permanent crops and has closed deals totaling over 80,000 acres over a period of eight years in seven states with a book value of over $300 million dollars. During this time, he learned the ins and outs of institutional farmland acquisitions and sales in multiple regions, with highly variable risk and return tradeoffs in both row crops and highly complicated permanent crop systems. This understanding and experience gained in different regional nuances of farming, local markets, water situations as well as relationships with key landowners, investors, and influencers separate his experience from most in this field.

Addison devotes his personal time to his family and can often be found either at his children’s sporting events, spending time in a duck blind, or volunteering in the special need’s ministry at his local church.