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In addition, on October 1, 2025, the U.S. government shut down and certain regulatory agencies, such as the SEC, have had to furlough critical government employees and stop critical activities If prolonged or recurrent, curtailed agency activities (including at the SEC) could delay access to public capital, slow federal approvals relevant to our land development strategy, and delay administration of agricultural programs and crop insurance, adversely affecting our liquidity, timing and operations.
Internal Revenue Service and determined to be currently taxable or that we may be unable to identify and complete the acquisition of a suitable replacement property to effect a Section 1031 Exchange.
Important factors with respect to our competitors include the following: • Some competitors may have greater operating flexibility, including larger development teams and contractor networks, which can enable faster permitting, infrastructure delivery and project phasing, and quicker responses to changing market conditions. • Competitors may have access to greater financial resources, lower financing costs, and larger inventories of entitled or improved land, allowing more aggressive pricing or larger incentives. • Demand for lots and land is sensitive to mortgage rates and availability of buyer financing; competitors that can offer preferable terms may attract buyers and partners more readily. • Competitors with longer-standing relationships, reputations or prior approvals in a jurisdiction may experience more efficient approval processes. • Complex land use approvals and environmental permitting can extend timelines, increase costs or require changes to plans and community opposition or litigation may further delay or limit projects. • We also compete for tenants and counterparties on grazing, farming, hunting and mining leases, where competitors may offer lower rents, better terms, or land with superior access, water availability or improvements.
In light of such regulation and legal requirements, we may experience significant increases in our compliance costs, costs of operations, including, but not limited to, increased energy, environmental, and other costs and capital expenditures, as well as could lead to increased litigation risks related to disclosures made pursuant to this regulation and/or legal requirements, any of which could materially and adversely affect our financial performance.
In addition, on January 6, 2025, we announced a Strategic Transformation in the Company’s business focus, to wind down our Alico Citrus division, which holds our citrus production operations, to focus on our long-term diversified land usage and real estate development strategy (the “Strategic Transformation”).
Due to increasing financial challenges from citrus greening disease and environmental factors for many seasons, we have decided to not spend further material capital on our citrus operations and plan to substantially wind down Alico Citrus’ primary operations after completion of the 2024-2025 harvest in April 2025, including reducing most of our citrus production workforce.
Moreover, in May 2025, we entered into a Mutual Contract Termination Agreement with Tropicana, terminating our agreement with Tropicana in its entirety following the fulfillment of all obligations under that agreement concerning the 2024/2025 Crop Year and all outstanding amounts had been settled by June 30, 2025.
In January 2025, we announced the Strategic Transformation, under which we plan to wind down our Alico Citrus division and in May 2025, we entered into a Mutual Contract Termination Agreement with Tropicana, terminating our agreement with them in its entirety.
In January 2025, we announced the Strategic Transformation in the Company’s business focus, to wind down our Alico Citrus division, which holds our citrus production operations, to focus on our long-term diversified land usage and real estate development strategy.
As of September 30, 2025, we had $85,950 in principal amount of indebtedness outstanding under our secured credit facilities (excluding deferred financing costs), and an additional availability of $92,500 is available under our revolving line of credit.
In May 2025, we entered into a Mutual Contract Termination Agreement with Tropicana, terminating our agreement with them in its entirety following the fulfillment of all obligations under that agreement concerning the 2024/2025 Crop Year.
In connection with the Strategic Transformation, on January 3, 2025, the Board approved a reduction in the Company’s workforce by up to 172 employees, effective between January 6, 2025 and April 1, 2025 (the “Workforce Reduction”).
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For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024, we recognized an inventory impairment charge of $19,549 in the fourth quarter of the year ended September 30, 2024 related to our 2024-2025 estimated harvest.
In addition, the SEC’s climate-related disclosure rules would require new climate-related disclosures in SEC filings, including certain climate-related metrics and greenhouse gas emissions data, information about climate-related targets and goals, transition plans, if any, and attestation requirements; although the SEC has issued an order to stay the rules pending the outcome of litigation challenging the rules.
These rules, to the extent they survive legal challenge (in whole or in part), would impose increased compliance costs and could lead to increased litigation risks related to disclosures made pursuant to the rules, either of which could materially and adversely affect our financial performance.
In addition, even if we are successful in strengthening our controls and procedures, those controls and procedures may not be adequate to prevent or identify irregularities or ensure the fair and accurate presentation of our financial statements included in our periodic reports filed with the SEC.
In addition to hurricanes and tropical storms, the occurrence of other natural disasters and climate conditions in Florida, such as tornadoes, floods, freezes (such as the freeze in the last week of January 2022), unusually heavy or prolonged rain, droughts and heat waves, could have a material adverse effect on our operations and our ability to realize income from our crops or properties.
Moreover, there are risks associated with the approval being time limited at the moment to December 4, 2025 and to being a state special-local need approval under FIFRA Section 24(c) as opposed to being part of the full FIFRA registration with EPA for OTC-containing products.
If OTC treatments do not prove effective in the longer term or are not approved for use 12 Table of Content s after December 4, 2025, our ability to manage these diseases could be further compromised, exacerbating the potential negative impacts on our business.
The loss of Tropicana as a customer or significant reduction in business with Tropicana may cause a material adverse impact to our financial position, results of operations and cash flows. 13 Table of Content s We currently have citrus supply contracts with Tropicana that expire in both 2025 and 2027, with the majority expiring in 2027.
Management’s assessment of our internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2024 concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was not effective and that a material weakness existed related to controls around the completeness and accuracy of its spreadsheet controls used in the preparation of our inventory net realizable value calculations.
As of September 30, 2024, we had $92,551 in principal amount of indebtedness outstanding under our secured credit facilities, and an additional availability of $86,606 is available under our working capital and revolving lines of credit.
The Army Corps of Engineers decided in 2010 to lower the permissible level of Lake Okeechobee in response to concerns about the ability of the levee surrounding the lake to restrain rising waters which could result from hurricanes.
However, due to the timing of the harvest for the year ended September 30, 2024, more of the citrus crop was harvested in the first and second quarters of that fiscal year.