By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media SLM Partners’ Iberian orchards fund has reached a milestone alongside a key investment. SLM Partners, a real asset manager specializing in regenerative ag and sustainable forestry, has achieved final close of its SLM Silva Europe Fund, amassing €30 million (US$31.2 million) in commitments and marking its first move into […]

Manulife Investment Management’s Forest Climate Fund (MFCF or “the Fund”) is a 12-year closed-end fund that seeks to deliver durable, high-quality carbon value to investors and annual optionality for in-kind carbon credit distributions or offset sales. The Fund seeks to provide the opportunity to promote climate change mitigation through a globally diversified portfolio of sustainably […]

Global AgInvesting (GAI), a premier convener of the global ag community, concluded a highly successful year, marked by robust investor participation at its three flagship conferences across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Building on this momentum, GAI is poised for another year of exceptional growth in 2025. With a significantly expanded team, including several key […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Homestead Capital USA, a private equity firm specializing in farmland investments, has added Kudu Investment Management as a strategic partner. Kudu, which delivers permanent capital solutions to asset managers, made a passive, minority investment into Homestead, the terms of which the companies are holding close to the vest. As […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Canadian ag-focused investment management Bonnefield Financial, which oversees C$1.5 billion (US$1.0 billion) in assets under management, has reached the second close of its agri-business fund. Buttressed with an anchor investment from Farm Credit Canada (FCC), which is 100 percent invested in Canadian ag and food, the Bonnefield Agribusiness Fund […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media A new alliance has been formed to help the ag industry navigate cross-border land acquisitions, appraisals and expansions. The International Ag Alliance (IAA), a coalition of agricultural land and business firms, has officially launched. Founded by Peoples Company, Brown & Co. and LAWD, IAA is designed to harness international […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media In a flex for the agtech industry, private equity giant KKR is among the investors backing an innovative company. KKR is investing in smaXtec, a Graz, Austria-based provider of agri-tech solutions for the global dairy industry, alongside other backers including tech investor Highland Europe. The companies are keeping the […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media FMC Corporation’s venture capital arm, FMC Ventures, has suffered a setback. The firm is facing a restructuring in the face of a disconnect between VC funding and agtech’s potential. Formed in 2020, FMC Ventures was launched to invest in startups and early-stage companies developing emerging technologies in the ag […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Formo, a Berlin, Germany-based food biotech company, has clinched EUR 35 million (US$36 million) in a quasi-equity venture debt loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The funding, which was provided as part of the InvestEU program, will help the company to scale its fermentation processes for alternatives to […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media The ASR Dutch Farmland Fund, which oversees close to 39,000 hectares (96,371 acres) of Dutch agricultural land worth €2.1 billion (US$2.15 billion), has clinched a follow-on investment from an ag-industry pension fund. BPL Pensioen, a Rotterdam, Netherlands-based fund that oversees the pensions of employees who work for companies in […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Baden Capital, a San Francisco, California-based private investment firm specializing in food, ag and water in the Western U.S., has set its sights on the farming community. Founded in 2022, Baden Capital has acquired plant protection specialist ORCAL, a Junction City, Oregon-domiciled company that designs and manufactures proprietary crop […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Clive, Iowa-based Peoples Company is continuing its growth-by-acquisition strategy, kicking off the new year with a deal. In a strategic acquisition, Peoples Company, an integrated land management, brokerage, appraisal and energy solutions firm, has acquired Lincoln, Nebraska-based United Farm and Ranch Management (UFARM), a competitor with a century of […]