By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Having secured approval from Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB), Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC) has successfully completed its acquisition of Langley Station, including all cattle, a plant, and equipment, for A$17 million. Located adjacent to the Jimarndy aggregation, which CPC acquired in October 2022 in a record-setting A$48 million […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Once again the Southeast U.S. is proving to be a hotbed for timberland deals. Private investment management services firm Domain Capital Group has revealed its acquisition of 22,000 acres of timberland throughout the U.S. Southeast via six separate transactions spanning October 2022 to January 2023. These deals add to […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In 2021 Bunge launched its Sustainable Partnership Program, a pioneering, large-scale initiative to track grain purchases with the goal of developing consistent and responsible supply chains, particularly in regard to sensitive areas at higher risk for deforestation in Brazil. Through the program the company shares its methodologies, tools, and […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media I’m sure at one point or another, nearly every farmer has wished they could clone themselves to accomplish all that needed doing. Now, with Agtonomy’s newest solution – TeleFarmer™ – specialty crop farmers are one step closer to that reality. Based in San Francisco and Sonoma County, Agtonomy enables […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media New Zealand Superannuation Fund is expanding its partnership with T&G Global through the acquisition of T&G’s 194-hectare Riwaka orchard in Nelson by FarmRight, the fund’s rural investment manager. “Over the past two years, we’ve developed a strong partnership with the NZ Super Fund, which is built off our shared […]
Photo credit: Rebellyous Foods By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in Seattle in 2017 by former aerospace engineer Christie Lagally, Rebellyous Foods has developed patented technology that achieves at-cost parity between plant-based and animal-based chicken. In support of this barrier-breaking work, the startup announced it has successfully raised $9.5 million in equity funding from […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Campbell Global, the wholly owned timber investment manager of J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives, advised investors and has led the acquisition of more than 250,000 acres of commercial timberland across three properties in the Southeastern region of the U.S., through a deal valued at more than $500 million. J.P. Morgan […]
Photo credit: New School FoodsBy Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Plant-based seafood producer New School Foods has emerged from stealth to publicly present its proprietary, scalable technologies for plant-based meat production, able to produce whole-cut fish alternatives that are on-par with animal-based counterparts. Concurrently, the startup announced it has closed on $12 million in Seed […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media PGIM Agricultural Investments (PAI) has acquired 3,537 acres of lemon orchards in Tulare County, California, from Limoneira, a diversified citrus growing, packing, and marketing company with related agribusiness and real estate development operations, for $100 million. The properties consist of a total 2,700 planted acres, another 231 acres of […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Canadian alternative investment manager Veripath Farmland Partners has acquired 3,026 acres of farmland in Alberta, Canada, through its Veripath Farmland (UR) Fund, bringing its total portfolios to approximately 110,000 acres. Launched in mid-2020 amid the global pandemic, Veripath continues to rapidly grow – operating on the conviction that global […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Enko designs safe and sustainable solutions for the largest threats facing farmers today by applying the latest drug discovery and devleopment approaches from the pharma sector to agriculture. Since its launch in 2017, Enko has generated hundreds of leading molecules across all categories of crop protection through its ENKOMPASS™ […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Florida-based Karis Capital has invested $150 million in Cattlemen’s Heritage Beef Company, an operation launched with the goal of offering sustainable beef with economic benefits for family-run cattle farms and the state of Iowa. This investment will now allow Cattlemen’s Heritage to move forward with plans to break ground later […]
