Web of Fundraising, Investments, Partnerships Drives $50M Cotton Project in Australia’s North
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The struggling cotton industry in Australia’s far north on the Ord River Irrigation Area (the Ord) is finally seeing an organized effort to advance, thanks to a complex web of partnerships, fundraisings, and investments. Back in September, Naomi Cotton Limited (Naomi) announced its agr
Read moreFollowing Tragic Loss, Packhorse Pastoral Listing Three Regenerative Cattle Stations
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Packhorse Pastoral Company Australia (PPCA) launched in Australia last year with its eye set on building a $1 billion portfolio of regenerative cattle properties by 2027 that would play a critical role in carbon sequestration and addressing climate change. The plan called for properties
Read moreCascadia Seaweed Secures $4.3M in Funding, Constructing 100-He. Ocean Farm
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media British Columbia-based Cascadia Seaweed is an innovative Canadian startup focused on kelp farming - an activity the company calls “the definition of regenerative aquaculture” - as it is renewable, uses no fresh water, fertilizers, pesticides, or arable land, and sources all required nutri
Read moreRMB Launches Agri Harvest Platform to Fill Finance Gap for South African Agriculture
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media First, a little background information. It was back in 2020 when Land Bank, a South African state-owned agricultural lending bank, defaulted on payments on two bond programs with a combined value of US$2.62 billion (50 billion rand) at the time. In 2019, Land Bank carried a gross loa
Read moreHaving Gained Court Approval, U.S. Sugar Plans to Close on Imperial Sugar, Begin Upgrades
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It was in March 2021 when Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) agreed to sell the business and related assets of Imperial Sugar Company to Clewiston, Florida-based U.S. Sugar for $315 million. Founded in 1843 in Sugar Land, Texas, (which in 1959 based its name on the company), Imperial Sugar is o
Read moreFormer Motif FoodWorks Director Launches New Company to Scale Fermentation Technology for Alt Protein Startups
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Michael Tai, a key team member of Motif FoodWorks who headed up the development and scale up of the key ingredient heme in his role as head of Bioprocess, has left to launch Boston Bioworks - a new startup with the mission to advance fermentation processes and scale-up services to bio-ingredi
Read morePepsiCo, ADM Announce Groundbreaking Agreement to Support Regen Ag on 2M Acres of Farmland
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In what the companies are calling an “unprecedented and unique opportunity to expand regen ag at scale”, PepsiCo and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) announced a groundbreaking 7.5-year strategic commercial partnership to collaborate on projects working to significantly expand regenerative ag
Read morePlenty Investing $300M, Building World’s Largest, Most-Advanced Indoor Vertical Farm Campus
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Leading vertical farming pioneer Plenty announced it has secured 120 acres of land near Richmond, Virginia, where it will invest $300 million over the next six years to build the largest, most advanced indoor vertical farming campus in the world. Moving for the first time beyond the U.
Read moreQuilter Investors Launches Timber Investment Strategy
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media UK-based Quilter Investors launched the Quilter Investors Timber Equity Fund as a sub-advised mandate within its WealthSelect Managed Portfolio Service. Managed by Pictet Asset Management, the platform will support sustainable forestry companies producing wood-based materials, or compani
Read moreWalhallow Aggregation Back on the Market After A$250M Deal Falls Through
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media News broke in early August that billionaire Brett Blundy had agreed to sell the Walhallow aggregation in the Northern Territory to a Sydney-based asset manager in a record-smashing deal for A$250 million (US$172.36 million). At the time, it was noted that if the deal, which is being ma
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