By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Under a plan already approved by its Board of Directors, Kellogg Company intends to split its business into three independent public companies by spinning off its U.S., Canadian, and Caribbean cereal and plant-based businesses. “Kellogg has been on a successful journey of transformation to enhance performance and increase long-term […]
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By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As climate change intensifies and demographics shift, the world is seeing changes in food demand at the same time that it is seeing a constriction of arable land and natural resources. Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) provides a range of solutions that can decrease the environmental footprint of food production […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Over the course of a brief two-year period, Oklahoma-based Raptor Ag has completed a series of deals with a range of institutional investors including family investment offices and Raptor Ag, totaling approximately $60 million for the development, or the acquisition, of hazelnut orchards in Oregon, and pecan orchards in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australian Agricultural Growth (AAG) Partners has acquired the 14,342-hectare (35,4400-acre) Blackbull Station in the Northern Territory for about AUD$25 million (US$17.63 million), with plans to expand dryland cotton production to approximately 4,000 hectares (9,884 acres). The property includes two freehold parcels – the 9,400-hectare (23,227-acre) Theyona, and the 4,942-hectare […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Shenhua aggregation, located on the Liverpool Plains and owned by Chinese mining giant Shenhua, had been earmarked for the development of Watermark – an open cut coal mining operation estimated to have a working lifespan of 30 years, over which time it had the potential to produce 290 […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Bay Area food tech startup Artemys Foods has rebranded under its new name, SCiFi Foods, and has closed on $22 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). This round brings total funding to-date for the company to $29 million, which has been committed from a cadre […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australia’s AAM Investment Group (AAMIG) launched its fourth fund, the AAM Diversified Agriculture Fund (ADAF), at the end of 2019 with an initial goal of raising A$60 million. After the turn of that year, AAMIG stated it intended to undertake further fundraising to support the acquisition of complementary premium […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Millennium New Horizons has led an oversubscribed $8 million Series A for Strella Biotechnology, the developer of a proprietary sensor technology designed to reduce food waste and improve quality in the fresh produce supply chain. Also participating in the round were Google Ventures, Rich Products Ventures, Mark Cuban, Union […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media At a time when one in seven Americans is food insecure, 52 million tons of food ends up in a landfill, not counting another 10 million tons of food that is left in fields discarded or unharvested each year. One-third of the food produced in the U.S. is never […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media PotlatchDeltic and CatchMark, two leading U.S. timberland investment managers, announced their agreement to merge through an all-stock transaction, forming a consolidated portfolio amounting to approximately 2.2 million acres across the U.S. This deal, which has been unanimously approved by both company’s Board of Directors, brings together two leading timberland […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Following an announcement last year by Royal DSM that it planned to divest its materials division to re-focus its energies on the production of sustainable food and health products, the Dutch specialty chemical ingredients leader is merging with Swiss peer Firmenich to create DSM-Firmenich in a deal that values […]
