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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.
Partner Todd Solow says educating growers and retailers about the potential return on investment from the company’s plant health products was key to the investment’s success.
Anna Locke, head of the Overseas Development Institute’s program on agricultural development and policy, says investors too often take government guarantees that land is available for investment at face value.
For both debt and equity providers, flooding in the US Midwest could provide opportunities to demonstrate the benefits institutional capital can offer.
FPI’s sales will focus on ‘the lower end of the cap-rate scale,’ says chief executive Paul Pittman.
Chief executive Pat Roney says plans for the property include replanting its vineyard acres, residential development of certain parcels and consolidation with other of the firm’s wineries to utilize currently unused winemaking capacity.
The sale to Mechanics Bank underlines the Dutch lender’s redoubled focus on agriculture following a $369m Department of Justice settlement last year, says North American rural banking head Curt Hudnutt.
The historically timber-focused firm hired former Brookfield Asset Management director Stavros Koutsantonis this year as part of its expansion into conservation-focused agricultural investments.
LP demands for climate-mitigating strategies and ESG hint at how the asset class might come into sharper focus.
Adrian Percy, who already advises two of the firm’s portfolio companies, expects regulatory pressure to provide opportunities for agtech investors.
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company director Daniel Gomez says firms that have historically avoided food investments are 'dipping their toes in the market.'
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