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Chris Janiec

Chris Janiec is Americas Editor at Agri Investor. Based in New York, Janiec coordinates coverage of private investment into global food and agriculture with colleagues in London. Previously, Janiec covered non-bank capital markets for PEI’s Private Debt Investor, taught international relations and US foreign policy at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and worked as an analyst of petroleum and shipping markets in New York.
The Department of Government Efficiency’s cost-cutting specter has clouded otherwise straight-forward expectations for ad-hoc payments that have already helped shape regional farmland markets.
Managing director Amrita Vatsal says the firm is hopeful that the involvement of Microsoft, which has strict due diligence procedures for carbon credit projects, will help de-risk its strategy for other LPs.
US ranch
Chad Rushing says producers have pulled back their acquisitions, creating a less crowded market that could bring equity and debt opportunities to farmland investors over the coming year.
Avocadoes on a tree
Water is the key: David Krause’s approach to acquiring assets for year-round supply in high-demand permanent crops.
Japan’s climate policies are driving corporate appetite for forestry-based carbon credits, says EFM managing director Amrita Vatsal.
The ‘near-seamless’ trade flows across the US-Canada border are under threat – the outcome could be higher potash prices and Canadian exports to Asian growth markets via the port of Vancouver.
Farmer holding soil in hands close-up
Chief executive Mike Steffeck says this first acquisition since Paine Schwartz’s 2022 investment positions the Jacksonville company for growth into other biostimulant markets.
Jim Heyes says the new role will see him taking on some responsibility for setting strategy and overseeing operations at the Bethesda, Maryland-headquartered African forestry manager.
US Flag, barn, farmland
The more conservative USDA called for in the Heritage Foundation policy paper could upend many real asset and natural capital strategies.
Washington’s Olympic Peninsula
Chief executive Bettina von Hagen says the 676,000 carbon credit offtake agreement was key to pulling together investors and winning the auction for a 68,000-acre forestry asset.
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