By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Biobest is on quite a run. Directly on the heels of closing on €120 million ($126.8 million) and announcing its acquisition of Brazilian biologicals leader Biotrop in September 2023, the pollination and integrated biologicals leader announced it has now gained another $75 million investment from M&G Investments to help […]
photo credit: Rockstart By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Amsterdam-based, early stage venture capital firm Rockstart has officially launched Rockstart AgriFood Fund II with a funding target of €50 million (US$54.74 million) and plans to invest in up to 50 startups within the next five years. Rockstart explained that when it started in 2011 as […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cal-Maine Foods, the largest producer and distributor of fresh shell eggs in the U.S., announced it has agreed to acquire shuttered assets belonging to Tyson Foods consisting of a broiler processing plant, hatchery, and feed mill located in Dexter, Missouri. Once the transaction is closed in Cal-Maine’s third fiscal […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Agricultural biotech leader NewLeaf Symbiotics (NewLeaf) has closed a fully funded $45 million Series D led by new investor Gullspång Re:food, with participation from Otter Capital Partners LP, S2G Ventures, Leaps by Bayer and other unnamed backers. NewLeaf is a pioneer and global leader in pink-pigmented facultative methylotrophs (PPFMs). […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media ADM has been on a sustained streak of acquisitions and building out a strong global flavors portfolio, and just before the close of 2023, has added two more: Revela Foods, a Wisconsin-based developer and manufacturer of dairy flavor ingredients and solutions – a deal that would enhance ADM’s capabilities […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Global investment manager of nature-based real asset and natural capital strategies New Forests is ahead of the curve. It was in December 2022 that it announced the launch of its new Australia New Zealand Landscapes and Forestry fund (ANZLAFF) with the goal of raising A$600 million (US$404.73 million) over […]
Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media With the amount of hard work that goes into agricultural production, I’m fairly certain that if farmers and managers were granted one wish it would be for the ability to clone themselves. Agtonomy is a software and services company working toward granting this wish by enabling agricultural and land maintenance […]
photo credit: Terviva By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media California-based regenerative agriculture and food company Terviva announced it has entered into a partnership with Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) that included an investment in the business from Mitsubishi. Terviva is working with local communities to harvest beans from the pongamia tree to produce protein-rich oil and meal. […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Historically, Chicago has been a leading meatpacking center. Now, Clever Carnivore, the city’s first cultivated meat company, has closed on an oversubscribed $7 million Seed round to make a (cultivated) sausage, as it were. The round was led by global alternative protein investor Lever VC and included significant backing […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media India is a top global producer of many agricultural products, ranking second in fruit and vegetable production only to China, producing 102.48 metric tons of fruit and 200.45 metric tons of vegetables according to the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. It also is a young, high-energy country […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Colliers’ Global Agribusiness team is managing the campaign for the sale of the Merredin Farms Wheatbelt Portfolio, the largest corporate broadacre land asset in Western Australia. Currently owned by SALIC Australia Pty Ltd (SALIC Australia) and PenAgri Farms Pty Ltd (PenAgri Farms), and ideally located in the country’s enviable […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Only months after the inauguration of its new cocoa fruit factory in Ghana, Swiss-Ghanaian start-up Koa announced the completion of its Series B fundraising at $15 million committed from both existing and new investors. Led by the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund from global asset manager Mirova, an affiliate […]
