By Michelle Pelletier Marshall Matt Armstrong serves as K·Coe Isom’s leader for sustainability assurance out of their Kansas City, Kansas, area office. K·Coe Isom, a top 100 accounting firm, is a leading food and agriculture consulting firm, and top provider of sustainability assurance. The company, founded in 1932, has its sight clearly on its core […]
As COVID-19 spreads globally, financial markets are reacting dramatically. We believe timberland and farmland investments can help to insulate a diversified portfolio from exogenous shocks to the economy and the financial environment, bringing greater consistency and resilience to a portfolio’s return profile. Flip through below, or click here to download. [flipbook pdf=”https://www.globalaginvesting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Natural-Resource-Flash-Report-March-2020_Timberland_Farmland-Resilience-Under-Uncertainty.pdf”] DISCLAIMER All views, data, […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI Media Kip Pendleton is executive chairman of Legacy Seed Companies, a proprietary seed company with operations in Wisconsin, Michigan, Idaho, Minnesota, and North Dakota that was created in 2017 to acquire and consolidate small regional producers of specialty seeds for U.S. Midwest farmers, producing crops for organic, GMO, and non-GMO […]
By Josiah Terrell-Perica, Farmland Investment Director at FarmTogether Iran’s greatest enemy is water scarcity and systemic failures around water management. Seven of the 10 most water stressed countries are in the Middle East, and climate change projections show that the situation will only become more dire. This region is warming faster than anywhere else on […]
By Misako Terui and Greg Mellinger of HighQuest Partners, LLC. Japan has long had a reputation as a country with an agricultural trade deficit, with challenges facing its declining population and market. Japan is known as a major importer of a range of agricultural commodities such as wheat, corn, soybeans, meat products, and vegetable oils; […]
By Adam Bergman – AgTech & FoodTech Investment Banker This is the first of a two-part article series written by Adam Bergman. Part II will follow in next week’s issue of AgInvesting Weekly. I believe that in a decade we will look back on the Beyond Meat initial public offering (IPO) and appreciate the enormity […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI Media With more than 20 years of experience in corporate sustainability, environmental management and consumer engagement, Wood Turner, senior vice president of Agriculture Capital (AC), is committed to furthering the investment group’s mission to develop a regenerative food and agriculture system that produces better food at scale and delivers healthy […]
By David Gray, non-executive director, AAG Investment Management The Clean Water Act (‘Act’) has been much in the news recently. More specifically, attention has been on the 2015 Clean Water Rules (the ‘2015 Rules’), and their impact on the definition of ‘Waters of the U.S.’, which were revoked on September 12, 2019. Characterized as ‘overreach’ […]
By Tom Avinelis, Founder and Managing Partner, Agriculture Capital America’s rich, fertile lands produce crops that feed the world, but increased environmental pressures and production costs coupled with low commodity prices are threatening the future of the traditional farmer. I’ve had the distinct pleasure of stewarding land and cultivating crops for my entire career, nearly four decades, […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, WIA Media NOTE: This story first appeared in the June 2019 issue, Volume 5, Issue 3, of the Women in Agribusiness Quarterly Journal, a sister publication to GAI News. Seed banks harken back to the beginning of agriculture. Farmers have been preserving seeds from the threat of extreme weather and disease to […]
