Memphis Meats Rebrands As Upside Foods With Investment From Whole Foods Founder John Mackey
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media The meat alternative space is increasingly crowded, and a company’s gotta do what a company’s gotta do to differentiate, gain consumer loyalty, and secure market share with an eye toward the future of the industry. Cell cultivated meat was considered science fiction only a few years ago. To
Read moreIncreasing Demand Spurs ADM to Invest $350M to Build North Dakota’s First Soybean Crushing Plant
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Rapidly growing demand from food, feed, industrial, and biofuel customers, including producers of renewable diesel, has driven Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) to announce it is investing $350 million to build the first dedicated soybean crushing plant and refinery in North Dakota. “ADM’s comm
Read moreConsultant’s Corner: Growing Demand for Carbon Offsets
CONSULTANT’S CORNER: Please enjoy this posting of Consultant’s Corner -- where the industry experts from HighQuest Partners provide insight on the latest activities in the ag investing and agtech space. By Philippe de Lapérouse and Mark Zavodnyik, HighQuest Consulting Emissions and pollutants generated by food and agricultur
Read morePaine Schwartz-Backed Prima Wawona Expanding 2,600 Acres
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Paine Schwartz-backed Prima Wawona, the largest grower and marketer of conventional and organic peaches, plums, nectarines, and apricots in the world, announced its plans to expand its acreage by 2,600 acres. Further cementing the company’s standing as the top grower, the new acreage will be
Read moreInsight: Anatomy of a Large Land Auction—36,558 Acres Along The Colorado/Kansas Border
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners & Consultant, HighQuest Partners The current market for farmland can be accurately described as one where there is a shortage of land for sale and a larger than normal number of potential buyers in many areas. While this article is not intended to be a deep dive into the reasons for this scenario, i
Read moreCenturia Capital, Primewest to Merge Creating Platform With AUM Exceeding A$15B
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Australian listed investment firm Centuria Capital has entered into a bid implementation deed (BID) with fund manager Primewest for an off-market takeover offer of Primewest for A$600 million (US$462.5 million). If all conditions are met, once the transaction is complete the merger of the two
Read moreXP Asset Management Brings In Cleidson Rangel, Plans Launch of $360M Timberland Fund
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media XP Asset Management has hired Cleidson Rangel, a natural resources specialist and former Brazil Fund Manager with Hancock Natural Resource Group (HNRG) for almost 10 years, to head up its new Natural Resource Investments unit. The first goal for this new natural resources unit is the planned la
Read moreFinal ACCC Report Concludes Investor Participation in Water Markets Not Injurious
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media It was in 2019 (August 8, 2019, to be exact) that the Australian government requested that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) conduct an inquiry examining the country’s $2 billion water market. The request followed on the heels of a serious drought that saw the countr
Read moreFarmers Gate, Red Dog Management, and Oppy Partner on Groundbreaking Specialty Berry Launch
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Ag investment firm Farmers Gate (founded by Dan Fabian, formerly with Blue Road, Stephen Smith, formerly with Harvard, and Thaddeus Tracy, formerly of Teays River) has partnered with family-owned agribusiness Red Dog Management, and grower, marketer, and distributor Oppy on the formation of New Wav
Read moreCargill Exits Sugar Trading, Agrees to Sell Alvean Stake to Brazil’s Copersucar
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Weren’t we just here discussing Louis Dreyfus Company’s move to sell out of its sugar holdings? Well, now another of the global ABCD-giants is following suit. Cargill is exiting sugar trading, and has agreed to sell its 50 percent stake in Alvean, the largest sugar company in the world, to
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