By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Crop biotech and food innovation company Benson Hill has announced a collaboration with Rose Acre Farms, the second largest egg producer in the U.S., that will build out the supply chain for Benson Hill’s high-protein, high-oleic, low anti-nutrient soybeans. Headquartered in Indiana and with facilities in Arizona, Iowa, Illinois, […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Commercial greenhouse operators are tasked with steep challenges – to balance a wide range of conditions such as temperature, humidity, crop diseases, and pests, for example, while needing to produce a large, uniformly standard crop of fresh produce for buyers who await a future harvest. It is not uncommon, […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media After owning a 50 percent stake in the company since 2010, and fully owning it since 2014, Sumitomo has agreed to sell Emerald Grain to Sydney-based investment manager Roc Partners. Based in Melbourne, Emerald Grain controls the Melbourne Port Terminal, the only bulk grain terminal at the city’s port, […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in Helsinki in 2017 as a spin-off from a VTT and LUT research program, Solar Foods uses a unique bioprocess similar to that used to make beer or wine to create natural protein using only air and electricity as raw materials. Using renewable energy and air-captured carbon dioxide […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media With a feed conversion ratio (FCR) of 1.2:1, seafood is one of the most efficient means of meeting the nutritional demands of a global population. In regard to environmental impact, as demand for protein continues to climb, seafood production has a significantly lighter footprint compared to poultry with an […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media On November 12 GAI News shared the launch of the INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II (STAFF II) by Lithuania’s INVL Asset Management. With a targeted goal of EUR100 million (US$118 million), the fund’s initial offering has raised EUR32.45 million (US$38.3 million) to-date from private investors to back […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Belgian food and crop biological protection company Biotalys NV has had a busy year. In March, the company raised its Series C, announcing a second closing at €45 million (US$50 million), for a total raise to-date of €61 million (US$66 million). And in June, the company, which was formed in […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Colin Ross, the owner of Australia’s North Star Pastoral, is selling two of the country’s well-known cattle stations – Maryfield and Limbunya – with expectations that the assets will fetch $150 million. Located in the Victoria River District in the Northern Territory, the combined stations are known to be […]
photo credit: Kate Farms By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Although there is admittedly still much we don’t know about the connection and interaction between our genes and the foods we eat, personalized nutrition, and by proxy, functional foods and beverages, have been noted as being some of the key drivers in the evolution of […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Intrinsic Capital Partners announced it has closed Intrinsic Health Partners LP (the Fund) – its growth equity fund focused on technologies and life sciences advances that are applied to the legal cannabis and hemp industries – at $102 million. Founded in Pennsylvania by principals Gerald Stahlecker, Cornelius Merlini, and […]
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By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Swiss wealth and asset manager Lombard Odier refers to sustainability as the “next economic revolution” and “perhaps the single biggest investment opportunity in history”. Joining the revolution, Lombard Odier announced the launch of a Natural Capital strategy. Inspired by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, this global equity […]
