Chris Janiec
Managing director Mike LeSage says last month’s deal with Northwest Farms reflects the key role of cage-free egg production within the firm’s Sustainable Agriculture Fund strategy.
Founder Shonda Warner described a focus on hazelnuts, blueberries and hemp and said Oregon’s Willamette Valley will become ‘the new Sonoma Valley.’
Twin Creeks partnered with The Conservation Fund and WKO for a transaction that saw the assets of SDS Lumber divided between the three entities.
Westchester Group founder Murray Wise describes a ‘deal made in heaven’, which FPI hopes will make it a more attractive partner to a wider array of farmland investors and operators.
Cascadia MD George Sent says Pacific Farms drew interest from private equity investors attracted to its role in provision of imported Chinese garlic to the US.
International Farming Corporation recently acquired a Washington state grower, packer and shipper of apples, cherries and pears.
President Geoff Lewis says AcrePro will aim to modernize land markets that have largely failed to keep up with marketing and technology tools used in other real estate sub-sectors.
Changing crop focus, strengthening certification processes and potential competition from indoor ag are all helping render organic market projections from as recently as a year ago outdated.
Hancock Natural Resource Group has rebranded as Manulife Investment Management Timberland and Agriculture and is to be led by former Credit Suisse real estate exec Christoph Schumacher.
The unit is the first of several collaborations envisioned for the C$390bn pension’s sustainable land management program, says managing director Nicolas Leyssieux.