AgIS Capital: State of the Market Report Q2 2024
April 24, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Over the past 10 years, AgIS Capital has established an impressive track record of acquiring and managing high-quality, investment-grade farmland assets and, when a value proposition presents itself, related agricultural commodity processing assets. The valuable thought leadership b
Read moreVitalFluid Raises €5M for Plasma Activated Water Applications
April 24, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media VitalFluid, a leader in the production of Plasma Activated Water (PAW) applications, announced it has raised €5 million in Seed funding from Future Food Fund, Graduate Entrepreneur, Horticoop, and Innovation Industries to accelerate its market introduction strategy. “We have been fo
Read moreGreeneye Technology Gains $20M to Scale U.S. AI Precision Spraying Operation
April 24, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Israeli investment company Deep Insight, and existing investors Syngenta Group Ventures, JVP, Orbia Ventures, and Eyal Waldman, the founder and former CEO of Mellanox, have invested $20 million in Greeneye Technology ("Greeneye") in support of the company’s mission to significantly reduce
Read moreOp Ed.: The Issue of Our Time for US Agriculture
April 24, 2024
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners LLC The work week ended with an extremely sobering read. A brilliant article by Carl Zulauf from Ohio State University, and the University of Illinois’s Gary Schnitkey, Joana Colussi, and Nick Paulson, which was just published in farmdocdaily, notes that “the world has added 398 million harvested ac
Read moreMosa Meat Closes on $40M in Funding to Scale Cultivated Meat for Market Entry
April 22, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Listed cellular agriculture leader Agronomics announced that its portfolio company Mosa Meat has raised $40 million in new funding to scale production of its cultivated beef in preparation for market entry. This oversubscribed round was co-led by Lowercarbon Capital and M Ventures, a pa
Read morePSP Investments Executes Two Major Australian Ag Deals With Combined Value of A$250M
April 19, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Canada’s PSP Investments, the fourth-largest pension manager in the world with a total CAD$243.7 billion (US$177.4 billion) in AUM and a Natural Resources Group with CAD$12.3 billion (US$8.95 billion) of net AUM as of March 31, 2023, has recently executed two major agricultural investments
Read moreNature’s Miracle, Agrify Merge to Form CEA Products and Solutions Leader
April 18, 2024
photo credit: Nature's Miracle By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Major vertical farming tech and infrastructure company Nature’s Miracle Holding has agreed to acquire 100 percent of Agrify Corporation, a leading provider of innovative cultivation and cannabis extraction solutions, to create the leader of CEA products an
Read moreContributed Content: Report: FarmTogether’s Sustainable Investing & Management
April 18, 2024
Photo credit: FarmTogether FarmTogether’s commitment to providing innovative capital solutions for accessing farmland goes hand-in-hand with the firm’s core value of sustainable land stewardship. FarmTogether’s recently released report breaks down the firm’s sustainability efforts across its entire portfolio, spanning 48 properties
Read moreContributed Content: China’s Future Role in U.S. Exports
April 18, 2024
By Michael Swanson, Ph.D., Chief Agricultural Economist, Wells Fargo, Agri-Food Institute(This article is reprinted with permission from Wells Fargo.) China has had an outsized influence on U.S. agriculture for the last two decades. As the second largest economy in world1 and tied with India for the largest population,2 China has entered
Read moreAstarte Capital Partners, SilviPar Close Impact Forestry Fund Highly Oversubscribed at $325M
April 18, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In early 2021, real asset-focused investment firm Astarte Capital Partners and Stockholm-based forestry development and management company SilviPar AB launched their inaugural Silvipar Astarte Impact Forestry Fund (“SAIFF”). Under the terms of the partnership, Astarte Capital had comm
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