Gladstone Land Still At It, Acquires Florida Farmland For $7.4M
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Well, the way Gladstone Land has been on an investing spree, there’s no telling if this will be their last deal of the year, or not. Wrapping up a truly impressive year of portfolio expansion, Gladstone announced it has acquired 1,204 gross acres of farmland, including 975 farmable acres, no
Read moreInVivo Completes US$2.5B Takeover of Soufflet; KKR, Bpifrance, Credit Agricole Invest EUR440M For Majority of Malt Unit
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media InVivo, a leading French agricultural cooperative group bringing together 192 cooperatives, has completed the acquisition of Soufflet, the largest family-owned grain buyer in Europe, in a deal that values Soufflet at EUR 2.2 billion (US$2.49 billion). Soufflet also operates on the intern
Read moreSofinnova Leads $13M Series A For Ag Biotech Company Meiogenix
By Lynda Kienan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Based in Paris, France, Meiogenix is an agricultural biotech company using gene and chromosome editing to create greater genetic diversity in our food and agriculture ecosystems. Through its platform, Meiogenix has developed a novel approach to common challenges in agriculture, and key is
Read moreAmp Americas Triples Carbon-Negative Portfolio Via Two Acquisitions
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded 10 years ago, Amp Americas is a vertically integrated company specializing in building, managing, operating, and maintaining facilities focused on converting dairy waste into carbon-negative renewable transportation fuel and power. With a decade’s worth of novel experience in c
Read moreVertical Farming Pioneer Dream Harvest Raises $50M to Scale Production
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Houston-based vertical farming pioneer Dream Harvest Farming Company announced it has closed on $50 million in funding from Orion Energy Partners to be used to construct a state-of-the-art, wind energy-powered, 100,000-square foot indoor growing facility. Founded in 2015, Dream Harvest l
Read moreTwiggy Forrest’s Harvest Road Agrees to acquire Iconic New Norcia in Western Australia
photo credit: Harvest Road By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Harvest Road, part of Australian mining billionaire Twiggy Forrests’ Tattarang private investment company, has agreed to acquire the iconic 8,000-hectare New Norcia Farm in Western Australia. Although a sale price was not disclosed, local reports expected
Read moreThe EVERY Company Closes Oversubscribed $175M Series C For Precision Fermentation Platform
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Leading fermentation food tech platform The EVERY Company has closed on an oversubscribed $175 million Series C on its way to pioneering a global shift to animal-free protein. This round, which brings funding for the company to $233 million, was co-led by new investor McWin and existing
Read moreGladstone Acquires California Pistachio Orchard for $88M; Portfolio Now Valued at $1.5B
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media We all know that Gladstone has been executing deals left, right, and center lately, but this one is big. Marking the company’s seventh deal since August, Gladstone has acquired 2,635 gross acres of farmland, including 1,776 acres planted in pistachios, near Lost Hills, California, for $88 m
Read moreIndia’s AgroStar Closes on $70M Series D
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2013 in Pune, India, by brothers Shardul and Sitanshu Sheth, AgroStar has built its platform to answer some of the widest challenges for India’s 140 million farmers, including lack of agronomy advice, adulteration, yield gaps, and high cost of production. Currently operating i
Read moreRural Funds Management Acquires Kaiuroo Aggregation From The Rohatyn Group
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Rural Funds Management (RFM), manager for the ASX-listed Rural Funds Group (RFF), an owner of a diversified portfolio of high-quality Australian agricultural assets, has had an impressive few months, rapidly acquiring multiple assets spanning cattle, cropping, and macadamia production - and t
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