Proterra Lists Three Remaining Farming Assets to Complete Divestment of Black River Ag Fund 2
photo credit: LAWD By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Following the recent and very successful divestment of its 22,386-hectare (55,317-acre) Corinella Group in December 2021 for more than AUD360 million (US$269 million), Proterra Investment Partners has placed its remaining three aggregations on the market at a collective
Read moreLouis Dreyfus Announces Launch of New Plant Protein Business
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As one of the world’s largest agri-commodities merchants, Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has stood the test of time throughout its nearly 170-year history. The global trader’s activities span the entire value chain across a range of platforms including Grain & Oilseeds, Coffee, Cotton, J
Read moreAcreTrader Expands Series B to More Than $60M With Addition of Drive Capital
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It was only in January of this year that AcreTrader announced it had raised $40 million through a Series B to fuel its strategic expansion. Little more than two months later, the company is back in the news, having expanded its latest funding round to be oversubscribed at more than $60 millio
Read moreAvocadoCoin First Crypto Released to Advance the Global Avocado Industry
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Estonian startup GreenCrypto, in partnership with private investors and global family offices, has released a $600 million initial coin offering on four international exchanges with the goal of crowdfunding a more sustainable future through agriculture. AvocadoCoin is the first token of
Read moreWorld’s Largest Salmon Farmer Offers $1.55B for Rival
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Norway’s Mowi ASA, the largest salmon farmer and producer of Atlantic salmon in the world, has made an offer of 13.8 billion kroner (US$1.55 billion) to acquire rival NTS ASA. Mowi alone meets 20 percent of the global demand for farm-raised Atlantic salmon. The company has 12,000 emplo
Read moreANZ Invests US$50M, Forms Strategic Partnership With Pollination
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media ANZ, the largest bank serving institutional and large-scale customers across Australia and New Zealand, has agreed to invest US$50 million in Australian specialist climate change advisory and investment firm Pollination in exchange for a minority stake. This investment is part of Pollinati
Read moreElders Managing the Sale of One of Australia’s Largest Macadamia Orchard Operations
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Where there is a change of ownership for the largest and most iconic agricultural assets in Australia, you’ll likely discover that Elders played a key role in making it happen. Just two recent examples occurred last year when Hancock Agriculture, the second largest producer of beef in
Read moreCOFCO, Sinograin Consolidate Through Two JVs as Part of China’s Strategic Reform
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media China is implementing a strategic restructuring to further ensure food safety, supply chain efficiencies, and to streamline capacity of its state-owned ag companies. As part of this initiative, it has been announced that COFCO, the largest food manufacturer and commodities trader in the count
Read moreThe Crush Rush: Two High-Ticket Soybean Crushing Facilities Coming to Nebraska
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Recently, Canada has seen its own version of a “crush rush”. Over the past year there’s been a “gold rush” underway in Saskatchewan, however, in this case, the term “gold’ refers to canola. In little more than a month’s time during the spring of 2021, three major companies ann
Read moreSPAC Agrinam Acquisition Corp. Files for $150M IPO For North America Agribiz Acquisition
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Agrinam Acquisition Corporation (Agrinam) will be seeking out prospective qualified acquisitions after filing a preliminary prospectus on January 21, 2022 with the securities regulatory authorities in every province in Canada (except Quebec) for a $150 million IPO. However, if the greenshoe o
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