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Wild Bees: An Opportunity for Agriculture and Biodiversity
By Claude Flueckiger, Flueckiger Consulting Throughout my career in the agricultural industry, the impact of agriculturalpractices on bees has been an important consideration. Discussions in...
View ArticleIngredion Partners with Better Juice to Fast-Track Sugar Reduction Solution
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ingredion Ventures, the venture investment arm of specialty food and beverage ingredients leader Ingredion, is leading the Series A funding round for...
View ArticleArcTern Ventures Closes Fund III Oversubscribed at $335M for Global...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Toronto-based venture capital ArcTern announced it has surpassed its target of $300 million, and closed its third fund oversubscribed with $335 million...
View ArticleOp. Ed.: The Conundrum That We Face in Agriculture Today
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners One of the memories that will forever be etched in my mind from a 40-year career in agriculture was selling wheat for $1.85 per bushel in the midst of the 1980s...
View ArticlePhageLab Gains $11M to Bring Bacteriophage Solutions to the Livestock Industry
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media This is the second time in a matter of weeks that we hear news of investments being made to advance bacteriophage technologies. Santiago, Chile-based...
View ArticleNew Forestry Fund Launches With Acquisition of 3,000 Acres in Maine
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Exemplary Forestry Management, New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF), Maine Mountain Collaborative (MMC), and Quantified Ventures have partnered to...
View ArticleUnifrutti Strengthens Global Multi-Fruit Platform with Acquisition of Verfrut
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Global fresh fruit leader Unifrutti has taken a major step in expanding its integrated and sustainable global multi-fruit platform by adding strong...
View ArticleProtealis Closes Oversubscribed EUR22M Series B for Sustainable Plant Protein...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In recent years, concerns associated with animal protein production and consumption have increasingly come to the fore, including antibiotic...
View ArticleRoc Partners Acquires 25 Pct. of NZ Rural Land Portfolio in NZ$44.2M Deal
photo credit: NZL By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australian specialist private markets investment manager Roc Partners has agreed to acquire a 25 percent equity interest in New...
View ArticleElo Life Systems Closes on Oversubscribed $20.5M A2 Round for Molecular...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Less than a year after food tech company Elo Life Systems (Elo) closed on a $24.5 million Series A, the company announced it has now closed on an...
View ArticleBregal Investments Launches Bregal Sphere Nature Strategy With Ag Focus
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Global private equity investment firm Bregal Investments announced its first venture into impact investing with the launch of Bregal Sphere Nature...
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Inari Closes on $103M Series F For its SEEDesign™ Platform
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media I have been sharing the successes of mission-driven seed breeding technology company Inari for about six years, and now I get to share that the company...
View ArticleTall Grass Fund I Adds Farm Credit Canada as a Key Investor
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Tall Grass Ventures, a Canadian investment firm with a focus on early-stage agri-food tech startups, announced it has welcomed Farm Credit Canada (FCC)...
View ArticleLouis Dreyfus Agrees to Fully Acquire Namoi Cotton
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has agreed to acquire the remaining 83 percent it already doesn’t own in Australia’s Namoi Cotton by way of a Scheme of...
View ArticleScottish Borders Council Partners With Nuveen’s Timberland Fund for First...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Scottish Borders Council Pension Fund has partnered with Nuveen to make its first natural capital investment by backing Nuveen’s flagship Global...
View ArticleSaga Robotics Gains $11.5M for US and UK Expansion
photo credit: Saga Robotics By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As agtech steps up to develop and provide sustainable solutions for the future of agriculture, Norway-based Saga Robotics...
View ArticleBain-Led Investor Consortium Takes Control of Accolade Wines
Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media After six years being owned by The Carlyle Group, Accolade Wines, a global premium wine and spirits company and the second largest wine company in...
View ArticlePlanet A Foods Raises $15.4M Series A for Cocoa-Free Chocolate
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Chocolate is almost universally loved. But the cocoa industry has been long-beset with challenging issues – economic, environmental, and social –...
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Elanco Sells Aqua Business to Merck in $1.3B Deal
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media After a year-long review process, Elanco Animal Health announced it has agreed to sell its aqua business to Merck Animal Health for approximately $1.3...
View ArticleBrief: Yarrum Almond Aggregation for Sale With Expectations to Fetch $22M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media CBRE Agribusiness’s Angus Bills, Matt Childs, and John Harrison are managing the sale of the 635-hectare Yarrum Agriculture Almond Aggregation,...
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