Cal-Maine Expands Egg Production Footprint in US Northeast with $110M Deal
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cal-Maine Foods, the largest producer and distributor of fresh shell eggs in the U.S., is continuing to expand its national footprint with the acquisition of ISE America for approximately $110 million in cash. Eggs are one of the most commonly used animal proteins. Global egg produc
Read moreUNCAGED Innovations Gains $5.6M Seed Funding for Alternative Leather From Grains
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media UNCAGED Innovations (UNCAGED), the world’s first leather alternative company making sustainable leather from grains at scale, has closed on an oversubscribed $5.6 million Seed round co-led by Green Circle Foodtech Ventures and Fall Line Capital. Ponderosa Ventures, Golden Seeds, and e
Read moreIDeA Agro Fund Completes Investment Cycle With Sicilian Citrus Fruit Deal
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media IDeA Agro, managed by DeA Capital Alternative Funds SGR and the first private equity fund in Italy to focus on agribusiness and farmland, has completed its investment cycle with its tenth investment - the acquisition of a majority stake in S.P.O. Zentrum, the Sicily-based leading platform in
Read moreACCESS Pool Appoints Stafford Capital, J.P. Morgan as Timber Managers
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media ACCESS Pool, a £40 billion (US$50.56 billion) UK pension fund vehicle overseeing the pooled assets of 11 administering authorities consisting of a collaboration of Central, Eastern, and Southern Shire Councils, has selected Stafford Capital Partners (Stafford) and J.P. Morgan Asset Manageme
Read moreInverness Graham Green Light Fund Targets My Yield for Third Investment
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Inverness Graham Green Light Fund has made its third investment, executing a major recapitalization for My Yield, a direct provider of specialty and integrated seed treatment formulas, application systems, and agronomic support to growers. Active as a lower middle market buyout stra
Read moreDownforce Technologies Raises $4.2M to Revolutionize Soil Organic Carbon Measurement
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The UN postulates that global climate, biodiversity, and land degradation goals will remain unmet unless investments in nature-based solutions more than double by 2025, to $384 billion per year. Doing their part, Equator VC has led a $4.2 million funding round for Downforce Technolo
Read moreIFC Backs Sustainable Insect Protein Startup ProNuvo to Boost Circular Economy in Lat Am and the Caribbean
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As a means to spark the circular economy in Latin America and the Caribbean, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has made an initial investment of $2 million in Costa Rica-based ProNuvo, a startup focused on the sustainable production of insect-based animal feed. With the gl
Read moreBTG Pactual Timberland Executes Largest Known Carbon Credit Transaction To-Date with Microsoft
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) has announced a groundbreaking carbon offset credit transaction through which it will provide up to 8 million nature-based carbon removal credits to Microsoft through 2043. Recognized as the largest known carbon dioxide removal credit de
Read moreEel Farming is Heating Up in Maine
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) announced an award of $3.4 million from the Indigenous Animals Harvesting and Meat Processing (IAG) grant program - part of the USDA’s Rural Development program - for the Passamaquoddy Tribe to build a controlled aquaculture eel farm, as opposed to rely
Read moreMexico-Based FARM Capital Makes First Round of Acquisitions
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Latin America currently accounts for 16 percent of the world’s total food exports, a figure that the UN FAO expects to increase to 25 percent by 2028. And, as food security has grown to be recognized by international investors as a strategic asset class, Mexico is a high-potential market i
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