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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 chief executive of The Coastal Companies says the acquisition of Hearn Kirkwood will bring the company 'new and exciting markets.'
The gap between appreciation and income is narrowing, but significant risks to farmland values remain, says Brent Burnett.
Pender West Capital Partners is among existing investors in the TSX-listed collection of food manufacturing and distribution businesses.
AppHarvest founder Jonathan Webb says previous investment from AOL co-founder Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund helped the company find partners in the Netherlands.
CEO Arama Kukutai says participation in a $8.8m funding round for New Zealand’s Invert Robotics gives the firm an entry into potential markets outside of agri.
Ag is at the center of a fierce dispute between the world’s two largest economies about the rules of global trade. Disease - and the disruption it brings - could highlight how global trade can be a force for good.
Filings suggest the firm co-headed by an ex-KKR principal is continuing to raise capital for its second fund.
The agtech start-up hopes its Transport unit will eventually arrange transportation for any grain deliveries its farmers do not make themselves.
CEO Corbett Kull wants individual landowners to get the same thorough terms as institutions.
Private investors are well-positioned to help revive industrial hemp in the US, but they will have to navigate a hopeful market carefully.
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