By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media For 20 years Puna Bio’s team has studied and made discoveries in the Puna de Atacama of the Andes – the highest altitude desert at 4,500 meters (14,764 feet) above sea level. The highest and driest desert on Earth, “La Puna” receives only one-fifth the rainfall of Death Valley, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media A total of eight lending participants committed to backing an oversubscribed $225 million revolving credit facility led by Rabobank as the sole Lead Arranger, sole Bookrunner, and Administrative Agent for North American integrated sugar refiner Sucro Can Sourcing. Initially launched at $175 million, strong demand from new and existing […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media New investors BMO Impact Investment Fund (IIF), a sustainability-focused investment fund of the Bank of Montreal (BMO), has stepped up along with Ares Management funds to lead a $310 million Series E for indoor farming pioneer Gotham Greens. This round, which was also backed by new investors Commonfund, RockCreek, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media News broke in early August that billionaire Brett Blundy had agreed to sell the Walhallow aggregation in the Northern Territory to a Sydney-based asset manager in a record-smashing deal for A$250 million (US$172.36 million). At the time, it was noted that if the deal, which is being managed by […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media La Maison Younan, a subsidiary of Younan Company, a global private equity firm specializing in the acquisition and management of a range of assets and companies in the luxury consumer space, has acquired its third vineyard in the renown Grand Cru region of Saint-Émilion, Bordeaux, France, for an undisclosed […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Conti Ventures has led a $35 million Series B for PatternAg Inc. in support of the company’s breakthrough metagenomics platform. Conti was joined by Bidra Innovations and existing investors The Production Board, Valor Capital Group, Founders Find, iSelect, LAUNCH, and Ospraie Ag Sciences. Just as genomics is rapidly being […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media New Forests, a global manager of nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies, the second largest forestry investment manager in the world, and the largest in the timber and plantation sectors in Asia-Pacific, is expanding through the formation of a new ag investment business division. Headquartered in Sydney since […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Thai Union, Chicken of the Sea Frozen Foods (a wholly owned subsidiary of Thai Union Group), and leading plant-based seafood brand The ISH Food Company have announced a North American alliance in support of the advancement of a regenerative, nutritious food system. As The ISH Food Company continues to […]
By Dr. Shaun Passley, Founder, ZenaTech The call for sustainable practices in the field of agriculture is not new, but it becomes more urgent with each passing year. Those who answer the call commit to tackling a complex challenge. In essence, sustainable farming demands more work be done with less energy. It requires a greater […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Neutral Foods, the first carbon neutral food company in the U.S., announced it closed on a $12 million Series A led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a fund co-founded by Bill Gates, which also led one of the company’s early-stage Seed funding rounds in October 2021. Additional participants in this […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media On August 26 I wrote an article titled The Shifting Landscape of U.S. Meat Processing in which I outlined the long history of consolidation in the industry, eventually resulting in a market dominated by only four major meat packers – Cargill, JBS USA, Tyson, and National Beef Packing. This […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Israel-based cellular meat company Aleph Farms – the company that unveiled the world’s first cellular ribeye steak grown from non-genetically engineered animal cells in February 2021 – has been recognized by the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate) as an Innovation Sprint Partner. As part of this […]
