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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
TCWD is a not-for-profit governmental entity, organized on December 28, 1965, pursuant to Division 13 of the Water Code, State of California. TCWD is a landowner voting district, which requires an elector, or voter, to be an owner of land located within the district. TCWD was organized to provide the water needs for future municipal and industrial development. The Company is the largest landowner and taxpayer within TCWD. The Company has a water purchase service contract with TCWD that entitles it to receive all of TCWD’s State Water Project contract water and TCWD holds the Company's banked water in the Kern Water Bank. TCWD is also entitled to make assessments of all taxpayers within the district, to the extent funds are required to cover expenses and to charge water users within the district for the use of water. From time to time, the Company transacts with TCWD in the ordinary course of business. The Company's Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, Robert Velasquez, was appointed the treasurer of TCWD in February 2025.
The Company has water contracts with WRMWSD for SWP water deliveries to its agricultural and municipal/industrial operations in the San Joaquin Valley. The terms of these contracts extend to 2085. Under the contracts, the Company is entitled to annual water for 5,487 acres of land, or 15,547 acre-feet of water, subject to SWP allocations. The Company's former Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Allen Lyda, is one of nine directors at WRMWSD. Mr. Lyda retired from the Company on March 1, 2025. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company paid $5,121,000 for these water contracts and related costs, of which $1,695,000 related to the period Mr. Lyda was an affiliate of the Company.
In 2024 the Company entered into a consulting services agreement with Mr. Bielli for the provision of strategic counsel to the Board and the current CEO upon Mr. Bielli’s retirement. The consulting agreement is for a term of one year, commencing April 1, 2025 and ending March 31, 2026. Compensation for Mr. Bielli’s consulting services is $85,000 per month. Mr. Bielli will also be reimbursed for normal and customary expenses incurred in connection with providing the services.