King Ranch Announces Strategic Investment in US’ Fourth-Largest Cattle Feeding Operation
April 10, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media King Ranch was founded over 170 years ago in Kingsville, Texas, by Captain Richard King. Today, the historic 825,000-acre King Ranch is not only a founding figure in American ranching still owned by the founder’s descendants with operations in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, and California, but
Read moreCeres Launches Portfolio Insights for AI-Enabled Ag Asset Management
April 9, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ceres Imaging, the first and only agtech company on the market that states it has a track record of developing data and analytics that benefit both growers and financial services, announced the launch of Portfolio Insights (PI) - a new AI-enabled platform to simplify agricultural asset manag
Read moreVeripath Farmland Partners Acquires 1,246 Acres of Alberta Farmland
April 9, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Veripath Farmland Partners has brought its total acreage under management to approximately 120,000 acres through its latest acquisition of 1,246 acres of farmland in the Province of Alberta. Veripath was launched during the pandemic in mid-2020 on the predilection that global demand
Read moreTerraClear Raises $15M to Integrate AI in End-to-End Rock Management Platform
April 8, 2024
Photo credit: TerraClear By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Robotic tech startup TerraClear announced it has raised $15 million in new funding from its existing investors to better position the company to dominate the $2.7 billion rock management market. As long as there’s been agriculture, there’s been a rock
Read moreCarbon Opportunities, Farmland Values, Investing Abroad and More… at GAI NY
April 8, 2024
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media You know all about it…our 16th annual Global AgInvesting event in New York City next week, April 15-17, that hosts the world's largest gathering of allocators, fund managers, and industry executives focused on the food and agriculture sectors. But did you know during the two-and-a-
Read moreThree Questions With… Steve Dyer, Founder, Semper Financial Management
April 5, 2024
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Beyond Farming… this is Semper Fund Management (“Semper FM”), a diversified team with 70-plus years of combined expertise in global agricultural commodities and real asset management. Committed to growing farmland values while at the same time conducting detailed due diligence
Read moreSeso Closes on $26M Series A for Ag Workforce Management Platform
April 4, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Often when discussing agricultural production and agtech innovation, the conversation focuses on the challenges associated with crop yields, inputs, and climate change – all valid and important considerations. However, although much more nebulous, labor issues are also a critical pain poin
Read moreAqua Capital Announced Oversubscribed Final Close of Fund III at $450M
April 4, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Surpassing its initial target of $400 million, Aqua Capital announced a final close for its Ag & Food PE Fund III (Fund III) with capital commitments totaling $450 million from a diverse group of both returning and new institutional investors, including asset managers, sovereign wealth f
Read moreOnego Bio Closes $40M Series A for Animal-Free Egg Protein
April 3, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Onego Bio has closed on $40 million in Series A funding - one of the largest such rounds in the Nordics - to support the commercialization and manufacturing of Bioalbumen - its revolutionary animal-free egg protein. This round, which brought total funding to-date for the company to $56 mi
Read moreDestination Time to a Meal: 1,500 Miles Across Global Waterways
April 3, 2024
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Women in Agribusiness Media One may not think too often about just how far our food has come to be on our dinner plate. But considering the recent bridge collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, this has come to the forefront due to all waterway vessel traffic being suspended indefini
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