AmplifiedAg Closes on $40M to Advance Its Hydroponic Container Farming Model
photo credit: AmplifiedAg By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media AmplifiedAg has successfully raised $40 million in equity funding in support of the expansion of its world-leading hydroponic...
View ArticleHNRG Acquires 89,800 Acres of Timberland in Maine
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Classified as an impact-first investment, Hancock Natural Resource Group (HNRG), a Manulife Investment Management company, has acquired 89,800 acres of...
View ArticleGreenLight Biosciences Goes Public Via $1.2B SPAC Merger
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It’s been a minute since we’ve heard about a massive SPAC deal, but GreenLight Biosciences brings us back to the table, announcing its agreement to...
View ArticleCatchMark Sells 18,063 Acres of Timberland to Roseburg Resources for $100M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media U.S. timberland investor CatchMark has agreed to sell 18,063 acres of prime timberland in Oregon, known as the Bandon property, to Roseburg Resources...
View ArticleGladstone Land Announces $42.3M Organic Blueberry Land Deal
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media I see a theme emerging. Gladstone Land has announced it has closed on a $42.3 million deal for farmland, blueberry plantings, and improvements situated in...
View ArticleAppHarvest, Mastronardi Form JV FarmCo
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media AppHarvest and produce company Mastronardi have announced a new endeavor in the form of a joint venture that will further strengthen their existing...
View ArticleBooster’s Tahi LP Invests More Than NZ$10M in Avocado Grower Darling Group
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media First, let’s meet Booster. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, Booster is an independent financial services company in business since 1998. Among its...
View ArticleBrightFarms Acquired by Cox Enterprises
photo credit: BrightFarms By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cox Enterprises, a leading communications, automotive, and media company, has fully acquired indoor farming company...
View ArticleCropX Acquires EU Crop Optimization Platform Dacom Farm Intelligence
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Following its acquisitions of Nebraska-based CropMetrics and New Zealand-based ReGen last year, CropX has announced its acquisition of Netherland-based...
View ArticleSolum Partners Acquires Majority Stake in Monte Vista Farming Company
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Solum Partners has made its second investment since its spin-out from Harvard Management in October 2020 – acquiring a majority position in Monte Vista...
View ArticleApeel Secures Another $250M in Funding, Reaches $2B Valuation
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It wasn’t that long ago that Apeel had raised $250 million in capital, bringing the company’s valuation north of $1 billion, and giving it unicorn...
View ArticleHewitt Cattle Australia Acquires Tubbo Station for More Than A$40M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Hewitt Cattle Australia, a joint partner of Canadian pension fund – Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) – has acquired the historic...
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Contributed Content: Canadian Farmland Portfolio Construction – Adjusting for...
By Stephen Johnston, Director, Veripath Partners Sharpe ratio analysis is a well recognised tool in portfolio construction – the high-level concept being to maximise the expected return a portfolio...
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Oxley Capital Partners Managing Sale of 21,900-He THF Portfolio (Sponsored...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ben Craw, managing director of Sydney-based Oxley Capital Partners, has been tasked by a European family office with the divestment of the ‘THF...
View ArticleLewis & Clark Leads $10M in Growth Funding For Beta Hatch
photo credit: Beta Hatch By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Seattle, Washington-based Beta Hatch, a startup focused on the commercialization of the sustainable production of insects as a...
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Strategy and Execution Result in FY 2021 Profit of A$18.34M for Gunn Agri...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australia’s Gunn Agri Partners, an agricultural asset management company operated by co-founders Bill Gunn, Alan Hoppe, Daniel Hough and Bradley...
View ArticleBiome Makers Raises $15M Series B For Soil Biology Analysis
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Think of it as 23 & Me, but for soil. That’s what Biome Makers is achieving through its patented technology integrating DNA sequencing and...
View ArticleCargill Partners With Vertical Farmer AeroFarms to Improve Cocoa Bean Yields
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cargill has partnered with vertical farming leader AeroFarms in a novel, multi-year research initiative that will use controlled environment agriculture...
View ArticleGladstone is Rollin’ – Closing On Another Two Deals Within a Week
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Not even ten days before writing this, Gladstone Land announced it had closed on a $42.3 million deal for farmland, blueberry plantings, and...
View ArticleOlam Seeking $2.8B Through London Listing of Food Ingredients Unit
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It was in January 2020 that Olam International and its subsidiaries announced a re-organization of the business to create two distinct operating groups:...
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