By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Southern Premium Vineyards (SPV), the platform formed by PSP Investments to own Australian vineyards, has entered into a long-term strategic partnership with Australia’s Casella Family Brands (CFB) under which SPV will acquire 7,215 hectares (17,829 acres) of vineyards across 35 properties in South Australia and New South Wales. Established […]

By Robin Saluoks, Co-Founder and CEO, eAgronom Agriculture is going places. The traditionally very low-tech sector that has been lagging behind on digital transformation saw agtech VC deals jump from $6.5 billion in 2020 to $11.4 billion in 2021. It’s now undeniably a hotbed for investment and innovation. The reasons for this are manifold: the realities […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media I’ve recently seen a variety of announcements being made by U.S. grain companies and cooperatives in the form of a strategic business expansion, a shift in leadership, an acquisition, and an investment. And I thought I’d share them all in one place, as a roundup, if you will.  Landus […]

Photos courtesy of Goterra By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Standing at the forefront of the revolution of organic waste management is Olympia Yarger. A visionary in the Australian insect farming industry, in 2014 Yarger founded Goterra, which builds and deploys smart city infrastructure for food waste management. Since that time, the company’s innovative […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in late 2021, Cooperative Ventures is a venture capital fund jointly launched by CHS and GROWMARK, two of the largest farmer-owned agricultural supply cooperatives in North America. The fund has dual objectives – to back innovative solutions and emerging technologies with the potential to positively impact farming, and […]

photo credit: Bridgestone By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ok, so this isn’t technically investment deal news, but how often do we get to discuss guayule farming and natural rubber production? Almost never! If you’re anything like me, your first thought might have been, ‘I’ve never heard of guayule…’ So let’s start there. Native to […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Containerized vertical farming pioneer Freight Farms announced it closed on a $17.5 million Series B3 co-led by Aliaxis SA, a provider of inventive fluid management solutions that ensure access to water and energy, and Ospraie Ag Science, a leading investor in agtech companies providing smarter, more sustainable ag solutions. […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2016 in partnership with private equity firm Trilantic North America, Boulder, Colorado-based Sunrise Strategic Partners (SSP) provides growth equity and expertise to emerging, authentic brands with $20-$50 million in revenue in the sustainable and healthy living space.  Successful investments by SSP include Kodiak Cakes, which SSP helped raise […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australia’s Vow Food is tackling the challenges of hunger, food security, human health, and environmental degradation through ethically expanding the diversity of our options by using animal cells to grow meat in a laboratory. If you could try alpaca, or water buffalo, or even an entirely new type of […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The UK has a new specialist investment manager in Isara, which has just announced the launch of its maiden fund – a £300 million (US$354.7 million) investment vehicle geared to improve the efficiency, quality, and sustainability of food supply systems across the UK, Ireland, and Western Europe.  Fully backed […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company has made its first investment in a farmland strategy fund, committing $50 million to the Nuveen Global Farmland Fund Lux SCSp managed by Nuveen Natural Capital.  As a land-focused asset manager, Nuveen has more than 35 years of experience in the field, and today, […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Peptyde Bio, the first company spun out of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center by Danforth Technology Company (DTC), a wholly owned subsidiary formed by the Danforth Center in February of this year, announced it has closed on an oversubscribed $1.2 million Pre-Seed round backed by Danforth Technology Company, […]