Item 2. PROPERTIES

The Company owns the facilities that its headquarters and R&D Systems subsidiary occupy in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Minneapolis facilities are utilized by both the Company’s Clinical Controls and Biotechnology segments.

The Minneapolis complex includes approximately 800,000 square feet of space in several adjoining buildings. Bio-Techne uses approximately 625,000 square feet of the complex for administrative, research, manufacturing, shipping and warehousing activities. The Company is currently leasing or plans to lease the remaining space in the complex as retail and office space.

The Company owns approximately 649 acres of farmland, including buildings, in southeast Minnesota. A portion of the land and buildings are leased to third parties as cropland and for a dairy operation. The remaining property is used by the Company to house animals for polyclonal antibody production for its Biotechnology segment.

Rental income from the above properties was $1.0 million, $1.0 million, and $0.8 million in fiscal 2015, 2014, and 2013, respectively.

The Company owns the 17,000 square foot facility that its R&D Europe subsidiary occupies in Abingdon, England. This facility is utilized by the Company’s Biotechnology and Protein Platforms segments.

The Company leases the following facilities, all of which are utilized by the Company’s Biotechnology segment with the exception of the location used by the Company’s Bionostics subsidiary (Clinical Control segment), and the ProteinSimple and CyVek sites which support the Protein Platforms segment:

The Company is currently pursuing new lease space for its Tocris operations. The Company believes the owned and leased properties, other than the Tocris facility, are adequate to meet its occupancy needs in the foreseeable future.