Asset Sale

3 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2023

Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]

In October 2022, the Company entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement, as amended, (the “Agreement”) with PGIM Real Estate Finance, LLC (“PGIM”) to sell 3,537 acres of land and citrus orchards in Tulare County, California (the “Northern Properties”) for a purchase price of approximately $100,405,000. On January 25, 2023, the Board approved the Agreement creating a binding agreement of the Company to sell the Northern Properties and the transaction closed on January 31, 2023. The following is a summary of the transaction (in thousands):


	January 31, 2023
Net cash proceeds received	$	85,891
Debt directly repaid through the transaction	12,917
Total net proceeds received	98,808
Less: net book value of assets sold
Cultural costs	4,405
Property, plant and equipment, net	53,144
Intangible assets, net	12
Other assets	1,320
Accrued liabilities	(68)
	58,813
Gain on disposal of assets	$	39,995

The proceeds were used to pay down all of the Company’s domestic debt except the AgWest Farm Credit $40,000,000 non-revolving line of credit. The Northern Properties component, including an allocation of interest expense related to the debt directly repaid through the transaction, had a pretax loss of $1,667,000 and $2,720,000 for the three months ended January 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

On January 31, 2023, the Company entered into a Farm Management Agreement (“FMA”) with an affiliate of PGIM to provide farming, management and operations services related to the Northern Properties. The FMA has an initial term expiring March 31, 2024, and thereafter continuing from year to year unless earlier terminated under the terms of the FMA. Further, on January 31, 2023, the Company entered into a Grower Packing and Marketing Agreement to provide packing, marketing and selling services for lemons harvested on the Northern Properties for a minimum five-year term, subject to certain benchmarking standards.