By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Farmland Partners (FPI) has re-entered the state of Texas after divesting property there in 2020, announcing the acquisition of a 3,834-acre farm for $12.1 million. FPI is the largest publicly traded farmland REIT measured by U.S. acreage in the country. Operating as an internally managed REIT, the company owns […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Oxley Capital Partners has been retained by a consortium of pig farming families to manage the sale of Riverbend Pork Group – one of the largest pork producers in Eastern Australia – through an offering given the name Project Fork. Structured as a corporate advisory and investment firm, Sydney-based […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media We have admittedly done a poor job in modernizing how we look at the profit and loss associated with farming. Higher crop yields and more animals, partnered with low cost of inputs, have traditionally meant higher profit. For centuries, the unaccounted losses tied to traditional extractive farming have been […]
photo of Coldridge vineyard courtesy of Warakirri Asset Management By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Under a new partnership with global wine company Australian Vintage Limited (AVG), Warakirri Asset Management (Warakirri), one of Australia’s leading ag investment managers and operators, announced the acquisition of two large-scale vineyards with a combined value of A$62.5 million (US$41.8 […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media BeeHero CEO Omer Davidi explained, “BeeHero’s mission is to deliver pollination accountability for commercial crop growers, by leveraging big data analytics and machine learning to help them mitigate pollination risk. Thus allowing them to focus on producing more food, securely, and sustainably.” In support of this mission, the pollination […]
By Weiyi Zhang, Ph.D., Senior Agricultural Economist, Manulife Investment Management The financial performance of farmland and agricultural investments is driven by both market specific factors and developments in the global macroeconomic environment. The recent dramatic changes in the U.S. economy, including rising inflation and interest rates, are already impacting farmland operations and income. The financial […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media New Forests, a global investment manager of nature-based real asset and natural capital strategies, 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 the next two-to-three years. Headquartered in Sydney since its inception in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media A little-known fact about today’s fashion industry is that the vast majority of the dye currently used to color the jeans we wear is not made from indigo, as I always assumed, but is synthetic, made through petroleum-based processes involving toxic chemicals. Since its inception in 2012, Tennessee-based Stony […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2018, Silverstrand Capital is a single family office based in Singapore with an impact mandate focused on addressing the biodiversity crisis through systemic investment solutions that advance regenerative food systems and accelerate wide scale restoration and conservation of natural ecosystems. The office initially invested in Aqua-Spark in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Spun off from Cargill’s Black River Asset Management in 2016, Proterra Investment Partners has offices in Minneapolis, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Sao Paulo, and London with $3.6 billion in food and ag AUM. Working out of the Shanghai and Singapore office, Tai Lin, managing director of subsidiary Proterra Asia, directs […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Since its beginning, Verdant Robotic’s mission has been multi-pronged: to address one of the most serious looming threats to farmers – a shortage of labor – and to provide robotic solutions that enable more growers to access regenerative and precision practices that support soil health, water conservation, carbon sequestration, […]
By Gustavo Llona, Partner and CEO, Frontal Trust Agribusiness Food security has become even more challenging in recent times, where we have witnessed and experienced how vulnerable food production and supply chains may be, especially when impacted by trade conflicts, pandemics, “special military operations”, or other events. This situation is forcing countries and companies to reassess […]
