By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media FarmTogether, an investment firm specializing in U.S. farmland, has added a pair of illustrious vineyards to its expanding portfolio, bolstering its wine grape offerings. The firm has announced successful closings on Josephine Vineyard and Pearl Vineyard in transactions totaling nearly $6 million. FarmTogether, which oversees $200-plus million in assets […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Swedish agtech startup Cerve has moved closer to its goal of revolutionizing the world’s food supply chain. In its latest seed round, Cerve has secured £3.5 million (US$4.4 million), the proceeds of which it will direct toward eradicating inefficiencies in the world’ s food supply chain through its proprietary […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Swiss agtech giant Syngenta Crop Protection alongside partner Enko, an AI-informed crop health company, has reached a key milestone toward sustainable weed control solutions. Through a multi-year weed-control collaboration, Syngenta and Enko have advanced new molecules, building on the success of fungal control research unveiled earlier this year. With […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media After overhauling its venture capital arm earlier this year, Mondelēz International is making moves. The company’s venture capital arm, Mondelēz’s SnackFutures Ventures, has reportedly joined in the latest fundraising round for cocoa-tech startup Celleste Bio. Based in Misgav, Israel, Celleste Bio is behind a proprietary cocoa technology designed to […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media AMERRA Capital Management, a U.S.-based asset manager specializing in food and agribusiness encompassing sustainable agribusiness and renewable bio-energy investments, has experienced a change in its ownership structure. The firm has completed a successful management buyout by co-founding partners Craig Tashjian and Nancy Obler, who together are acquiring 50 percent […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media As a fifth-generation rancher, Jen Livsey knows a thing or two about cattle ranching. Her family has been ranching in Colorado since 1907. Their operation, the Flying Diamond Ranch, runs beef cattle across 200,000 acres, 30,000 of which they own. Livsey and her brothers were raised on the ranch […]

By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media, & Scott Reaves, Domain Timber Advisors To say that timberland deals are sprouting up all over would not be an overstatement. From last week’s news about Campbell Global, the timber investment manager owned by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, acquiring more than 40,000 acres of commercial timberland in the […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media M&A is afoot in the ag industry. Agrovision, a technology-powered superfruit grower, has purchased Chilean grower and exporter ZurGroup, marking its maiden strategic acquisition and paving the way for further growth. The deal marks Agrovision’s expansion into premium cherry production amid the launch of Agrovision Chile, bolstering the company’s […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Australia’s Lockyer Valley Foods is looking to raise $50 million (US$32 million) in a Series A round, the proceeds from which will be directed toward starting construction on a groundbreaking fruit and vegetable processing facility, the likes of which the country hasn’t seen in decades. The goal is to […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Campbell Global, the timber investment manager owned by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, has expanded its portfolio. The firm has scooped up more than 40,000 acres of commercial timberland in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Situated on the Olympic Peninsula in northwest Washington state, the assets have inherited the name Tyee […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Four Growers, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based AI-robotics startup, has secured $9 million in its latest fundraising round. The company, which is Series A, will direct the proceeds toward scaling its flagship GR-100 robot and an expansion push into North America and internationally, including Europe and Oceania. Led by Basset Capital, […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Biotangents, an Edinburgh, Scotland-based biotech startup, has raised £2.3 million (US$2.9 million) in a Series A round. The proceeds will be directed toward bolstering the scale of its on-farm diagnostic device designed to identify disease in dairy cows. Led by St Andrews-based Eos Advisory and British Business Investments, the […]