---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-033592"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FPI"
cik: "0001591670"
company_name: "Farmland Partners Inc."
filed_at: "2023-03-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T23:35:22.929270+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Farmland Partners appoints Jennifer S. Grafton as independent director; board expands to nine

## Summary
- Board increased from 8 to 9 directors; Grafton appointed effective March 16, 2023, to serve until 2023 annual meeting.
- Grafton is EVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at E2open, prior COO/CLO at Westmoreland Coal.
- Compensation as director consistent with other non-employee directors; standard indemnification agreement entered.
- No related party transactions between Grafton or her immediate family and the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-033592
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FPI
- cik: 0001591670
- company_name: Farmland Partners Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-03-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1591670/000110465923033592/0001104659-23-033592-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1591670/000110465923033592/tm239846d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-033592
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-033592.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jennifer S. Grafton was appointed as independent director at Farmland Partners Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: independent director
  source text: On March 16, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Farmland Partners Inc. (the “Company”) increased the size of the Board from eight directors to nine directors and appointed Jennifer S. Grafton as an independent director, effective immediately, to fill the vacancy created by the increase in the number of directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1591670/000110465923033592/0001104659-23-033592-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.