Q&A: Year-ahead Weather Intelligence Key to Navigating Unpredictable Current Climate
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Women in Agribusiness Media. Reprinted from our sister publication, Women in Agribusiness Today. While we may debate the causes of the recent rash of unpredictable weather in the U.S. and abroad, we can likely agree that extreme changes are evident. From 113 consecutive days with temperatures over 100 degree
Read moreWhat Will the Timberland Sector Look Like for the Rest of 2024?
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media, & Scott Reaves, Domain Timber Advisors The investment in land that produces timber is often seen as a good portfolio diversifier that can hedge against inflation and generate low volatility, risk-adjusted returns compared to most other asset types. It also is gaining traction as
Read moreA Look at the Potential for Alternative Crop Investment and Growth
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media We hear plenty about the crops that make the world go round – wheat, corn, and oilseed crops such as soybeans, canola, cottonseed, sunflower and more – but alternative crops are proliferating at boutique farms around the U.S. and the globe and becoming more and more prevalent in
Read moreThe Opportunities and Challenges of International Trade in Agriculture
Contributed content from Weiyi Zhang, Ph.D., Senior Agricultural Economist, Manulife Investment Global agricultural production has benefited from expanded international trade for more than two decades. Robust trade networks have connected the demand and supply of a plethora of agricultural products across international borders. Global effo
Read moreInvesting in Ag? Your Questions Are Answered at Global AgInvesting 2023
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Today, an estimated $26 billion of United States farmland is owned or managed by institutions, with institutional investments ranging between US$28-$35 billion. And, as HighQuest Consulting’s Philippe de Lapérouse explained in his “Ag Sectors to Watch” article in GAI News
Read moreTakeaways from GAI NY 2022 — Macro Drivers, Net Zero, and Opportunities in Organics
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media The 14th annual Global AgInvesting, held April 4-6, 2022, back in NYC for the first time since the pandemic, was very well-received and attended by nearly 800 in the sector, from institutional investors to family office managers to innovators and agribusinesses. Topics covered include
Read more“A Year Like No Other”… New Elders Rural Property Update Highlights Ag in Australia
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Elders Real Estate of Australia has launched a quarterly update – Elders Rural Property Update – that provides quarterly data and analysis on the value and volume of rural property at national, state, and regional levels. Highlights of the update, which covers Q4 of 2021, inclu
Read moreLewis & Clark Leads $24M Series B for IUNU
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media On a global scale, the world has lost a third of its arable land over the past 40 years to the effects of pollution or erosion at a rate that far outpaces the natural rate of soil replacement, according to a team at the Grantham Center for Sustainable Futures at the University of Sheffield. T
Read moreThree Top Investors Back Australia’s Perfection Fresh to Grow CEA Platform Through Australasia
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Equilibrium Capital, Temasek, and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), which is an existing shareholder, have come together to invest in Perfection Fresh, one of Australia’s largest privately owned fresh produce companies. Founded in 1978 by the Simonetta famil
Read more15 Minutes With… Finistere Ventures
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media California-based Finistere Ventures (Finistere) is a pioneer in the rapidly growing agtech sector, in which it began making investments in 2005. The company boasts an international network of partners that include Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Israel, as well as access to their
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