By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Leading Canadian permanent crop precision farming platform Semios announced it has acquired Agworld, an Australian data-driven farm management platform resulting in one of the largest independent agtech solution providers in the world. Founded in Vancouver in 2010, Semios offers real-time crop data and pest management tools for nut, tree […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It was in January 2020 that Olam International and its subsidiaries announced a re-organization of the business to create two distinct operating groups: Olam Food Ingredients (OFI), and Olam Global Agri (OGA). The plan was launched following a thorough review and evaluation, and a determination that such a move would […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Not even ten days before writing this, Gladstone Land announced it had closed on a $42.3 million deal for farmland, blueberry plantings, and improvements situated in Kern County, California, and Yamhill County, Oregon. Within a week’s time following this deal, the company announced another two deals with a combined […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cargill has partnered with vertical farming leader AeroFarms in a novel, multi-year research initiative that will use controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to improve cocoa production. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, and as a Certified B Corporation since 2017, AeroFarms uses advanced technologies to take agricultural […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Think of it as 23 & Me, but for soil. That’s what Biome Makers is achieving through its patented technology integrating DNA sequencing and ecological computing technologies to better understand the soil microbiome. In support of this important work, Prosus Ventures has led a $15 million Series B for […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australia’s Gunn Agri Partners, an agricultural asset management company operated by co-founders Bill Gunn, Alan Hoppe, Daniel Hough, and Bradley Wheaton, announced the final close of the Gunn Agri Cattle Fund in April 2018. And as the fund goes from strength-to-strength, Gunn Agri has released the fund’s unaudited results […]
photo credit: Beta Hatch By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Seattle, Washington-based Beta Hatch, a startup focused on the commercialization of the sustainable production of insects as a protein source in animal feed, has secured another $10 million in growth capital led by Lewis & Clark Agrifood, and including existing investors Cavallo Ventures, the VC […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ben Craw, managing director of Sydney-based Oxley Capital Partners, has been tasked by a European family office with the divestment of the ‘THF Portfolio’ – a 21,900-hectare (54,117-acre) beef cattle and irrigated fodder aggregation located in Central Queensland, Australia. Handling the sale, Oxley Capital Partners is an independent corporate advisory […]
By Stephen Johnston, Director, Veripath Partners Sharpe ratio analysis is a well recognised tool in portfolio construction – the high-level concept being to maximise the expected return a portfolio will generate per expected unit of risk. More specifically: “The Sharpe ratio was developed by Nobel laureate William F. Sharpe and is used to help investors […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Hewitt Cattle Australia, a joint partner of Canadian pension fund – Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) – has acquired the historic Tubbo Station in the Riverina region of New South Wales for an amount that was described by listing agent Col Medway as “above the A$40 million […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It wasn’t that long ago that Apeel had raised $250 million in capital, bringing the company’s valuation north of $1 billion, and giving it unicorn status. Little more than a year later, the company has secured another $250 million in Series E capital commitments led by returning investors Temasek, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Solum Partners has made its second investment since its spin-out from Harvard Management in October 2020 – acquiring a majority position in Monte Vista Farming Company, a California-based almond huller, sheller, and processor. Solum Partners began at the height of the pandemic, in October of 2020, when Harvard University’s $41.9 billion […]
