Chris Janiec
Potential change among the quartet sitting atop the global agriculture industry will shape opportunities for private investors downstream. The drivers of that change reflect challenges shared by all in the sector.
The purchase of the 761-acre property comes as USDA predicts record production of the nut.
Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana deputy CIO Maurice Coleman tells Agri Investor the vehicle’s strategy includes agriculture among its target sectors.
Executives from The tru Shrimp Company tell Agri Investor their network of Midwest farmers and former ethanol investors will allow the Minnesota-headquartered business to leverage the region’s grain endowment, investor base and hunger for development.
Rabo AgriFinance and Conservis have established a development collaboration, which executives from both companies tell Agri Investor has the potential to facilitate farmers’ access to capital and a develop a greater role for agtech in institutional farmland portfolios.
At last month’s Agri Investor Forum in Chicago discussion about bridging gap between farmland and agtech, panelists from Vestaron, Marrone Bio Innovations and AgLaunch focused on focused largely on biopesticide products and consumers’ growing demand for organics and traceability.
Xavier Vargas, president of Cargill Protein Latin America, tells Agri Investor the acquisition reflects a company-wide focus on protein and is part of $100m investment earmarked for Colombia in 2017-20.
Growing labor concerns across the agricultural economy highlight the opportunity for investors to help the sector lead the broader effort to integrate automation with the existing workforce.
Kyle Amos, president of Highfield Farm Asset Services, tells Agri Investor the property purchased by the NASDAQ-listed farmland REIT neighbors others owned by institutional investors.
The vehicle’s predecessor, Wastewater Opportunity Fund, closed on $184m in 2016 and focused on the construction of facilities to process food, beverage, agricultural and municipal wastewater.