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Note 13 - Leases

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2022

NOTE 13 – LEASES

The Company has operating leases for its corporate offices and office equipment. The Company’s leases have remaining lease terms of 1 month to 46 months as of December 31, 2022, some of which include options to extend or terminate the lease. However, the Company is not reasonably certain to exercise options to renew or terminate, and therefore renewal and termination options are not included in the lease term. The Company’s current lease arrangements expire in the fourth quarter of 2024. The Company has removed $3.3 million of right-of-use assets and liabilities related to the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) rights-of-way leases due to a court ruling in September 2022 which vacated the rights-of-way and returned them to the BLM. The Company will reapply for the rights-of-way and work with the BLM on any additional environmental review required to authorize the conveyance of water in the Northern Pipeline over BLM lands. The Company does not have any finance leases.

Cadiz Inc.

Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements

The Company’s lease population does not include any residual value guarantees, and therefore none were considered in the calculation of the lease balances. The Company has leases with variable payments, most commonly in the form of common area maintenance charges which are based on actual costs incurred. These variable payments were excluded from the right-of-use asset and lease liability balances since they are not fixed or in-substance fixed payments.

The Company elected to utilize the practical expedients permitted within the leasing standard, including the practical expedient not to reassess existing land easements, which among other things, allows the Company to carryforward the historical lease classification. The Company has lease agreements with lease and non-lease components and has elected the practical expedient to account for lease and non-lease components as a single lease component for real-estate class of leases only. For leases with terms greater than 12 months, the Company records the related asset and lease liability at the present value of lease payments over the lease term. Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less with purchase options or extension options that are not reasonably certain to be exercised are not recorded on the Consolidated Balance Sheets; the Company recognizes lease expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease.

Lease balances. Amounts recognized in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 are as follows (in thousands):

As of December 31, 2022
Activity	Balance Sheet Location	Balance
ROU assets	Other assets	$	553
Short-term lease liability	Other liabilities	$	109
Long-term lease liability	Other long-term liabilities	$	444

As of December 31, 2021
Activity	Balance Sheet Location	Balance
ROU assets	Other assets	$	3,281
Short-term lease liability	Other liabilities	$	24
Long-term lease liability	Other long-term liabilities	$	3,257

Lease cost. The Company’s operating lease cost for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $29 thousand.

Lease commitments. The table below summarizes the Company’s scheduled future minimum lease payments under operating, recorded on the balance sheet as of December 31, 2022 (in thousands):

Cadiz Inc.

Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements

2023	$	168
2024		172
2025		192
2026		160
2027+		-
Total lease payments		692
Less: Imputed interest		(139	)
Present value of lease payments		553
Less: current maturities of lease obligations		(109	)
Long-term lease obligations	$	444

Most of the Company’s lease agreements do not provide a readily determinable implicit rate nor is it available to us from its lessors. Instead, the Company estimates its incremental borrowing rate based on information available at either the implementation date of Topic 842 or at lease commencement for leases entered into thereafter in order to discount lease payments to present value. The table below presents additional information related to the Company’s leases as of December 31, 2022:

Weighted Average Remaining Lease Term
Operating leases (years)	4

Weighted Average Discount Rate
Operating leases	10	%

As a lessor, in February 2016, the Company entered into a lease agreement with Fenner Valley Farms LLC (“FVF”) (the “lessee”), pursuant to which FVF is leasing, for a 99-year term, 2,100 acres owned by Cadiz in San Bernardino County, California, to be used to plant, grow and harvest agricultural crops (“FVF Lease Agreement”). As consideration for the lease, FVF paid the Company a one-time payment of $12.0 million upon closing. The Company expects to record rental income of $420 thousand annually over the next five years related to the FVF Lease Agreement.