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 […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Methane-to-value solutions startup Windfall Bio has raised $28 million in Series A funding led by Prelude Ventures with participation from Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Global Brain (through its Norinchukin Innovation Fund L.P.), Incite Ventures, Positive Ventures, and existing investor B37 Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Mayfield, and UNTITLED – a […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Although farmland is a fairly new asset class – not playing a role in institutional asset allocation strategies in any major way prior to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 – market conditions, global socio-economic and political developments, and the inherent risk-return benefits associated with farmland, among others, have […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media King Ranch was founded over 170 years ago in Kingsville, Texas, by Captain Richard King. Today, the historic 825,000-acre King Ranch is not only a founding figure in American ranching still owned by the founder’s descendants with operations in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, and California, but has diversified into other […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ceres Imaging, the first and only agtech company on the market that states it has a track record of developing data and analytics that benefit both growers and financial services, announced the launch of Portfolio Insights (PI) – a new AI-enabled platform to simplify agricultural asset management. Managing a […]
