By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media VitalFluid, a leader in the production of Plasma Activated Water (PAW) applications, announced it has raised €5 million in Seed funding from Future Food Fund, Graduate Entrepreneur, Horticoop, and Innovation Industries to accelerate its market introduction strategy.  “We have been following VitalFluid for seven years and decided now is […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Israeli investment company Deep Insight, and existing investors Syngenta Group Ventures, JVP, Orbia Ventures, and Eyal Waldman, the founder and former CEO of Mellanox, have invested $20 million in Greeneye Technology (“Greeneye”) in support of the company’s mission to significantly reduce the agricultural chemicals applied globally each year – […]

By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners LLC The work week ended with an extremely sobering read. A brilliant article by Carl Zulauf from Ohio State University, and the University of Illinois’s Gary Schnitkey, Joana Colussi, and Nick Paulson, which was just published in farmdocdaily, notes that “the world has added 398 million harvested acres of […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Listed cellular agriculture leader Agronomics announced that its portfolio company Mosa Meat has raised $40 million in new funding to scale production of its cultivated beef in preparation for market entry.  This oversubscribed round was co-led by Lowercarbon Capital and M Ventures, a part of Merck Group. Joining the […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Canada’s PSP Investments, the fourth-largest pension manager in the world with a total CAD$243.7 billion (US$177.4 billion) in AUM and a Natural Resources Group with CAD$12.3 billion (US$8.95 billion) of net AUM as of March 31, 2023, has recently executed two major agricultural investments – one itself, and one […]

photo credit: Nature’s Miracle By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Major vertical farming tech and infrastructure company Nature’s Miracle Holding has agreed to acquire 100 percent of Agrify Corporation, a leading provider of innovative cultivation and cannabis extraction solutions, to create the leader of CEA products and solutions providers.  Under the terms of the agreement, […]

Photo credit: FarmTogether FarmTogether’s commitment to providing innovative capital solutions for accessing farmland goes hand-in-hand with the firm’s core value of sustainable land stewardship. FarmTogether’s recently released report breaks down the firm’s sustainability efforts across its entire portfolio, spanning 48 properties across eight states and 14 commodities. The report features FarmTogether’s key portfolio sustainability metrics […]

By Michael Swanson, Ph.D., Chief Agricultural Economist, Wells Fargo, Agri-Food Institute(This article is reprinted with permission from Wells Fargo.) China has had an outsized influence on U.S. agriculture for the last two decades. As the second largest economy in world1 and tied with India for the largest population,2 China has entered the Big Three of U.S. agricultural […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In early 2021, real asset-focused investment firm Astarte Capital Partners and Stockholm-based forestry development and management company SilviPar AB launched their inaugural Silvipar Astarte Impact Forestry Fund (“SAIFF”). Under the terms of the partnership, Astarte Capital had committed US$30 million to the venture as seed capital, and SilviPar had […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Custom Agronomics (“Custom Ag”), the second of three active portfolio companies of Inverness Graham Green Light, the environmental sustainability-focused, lower-middle market buyout strategy of Inverness Graham, announced it has acquired BioTek Ag, a Florida-based provider of solutions that improve and protect crops yields from corn, soybean, and cotton fields […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ginkgo Bioworks announced its acquisition of AgBiome’s platform assets including more than 115,000 sequenced and isolated strains, more than 500 million unique gene sequences, associated functional data and metadata, and AgBiome’s development pipeline.  These newly held assets will be integrated into Ginkgo Ag Biologicals Services – a platform established […]

Brent McGowanManaging Director, Global Head of Agricultural Operations Weiyi Zhang, Ph.D.,Associate Director, Agricultural Economics Hannah BarkanManager, Impact Investing & Natural Climate Solutions Feeding a growing population in a world of increasingly scarce natural resources will require sustainable solutions, which is where regenerative agriculture could play a critical role. For investors, building and sustainably managing a […]