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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.
A source familiar with the deal tells Agri Investor it comes as some international investors explore re-entry into a market many fled three-and-a-half years ago amid heightened tensions with Russia.
Market insiders tell Agri Investor properties recently added to the NCREIF Farmland Index suggest CPPIB’s exited farmland portfolio was a diversified one with concentration in the Delta and Corn Belt states.
The NASDAQ-listed farmland REIT says it hopes the $7m deal will be the first of many in a region well-suited to benefit from growing demand for healthy produce.
Steve Bierschenk’s nearly 20 years at the St Louis-headquartered agrochemical giant culminated in a five-year stint as vice-president of global strategy.
The firm used a $250,000 grant from the USDA to produce a report that quantifies the impact of sustainable ag practices within the REIT's portfolio at more than $21m.
Florida Food Products snapped up as its new owners look to capitalise on soaring growth in the clean label and packaged meat market.
Venture partner Peter Jorgensen argues Ripe Technology’s traceability offerings can help keep food companies from being 'deselected' for not offering the level of transparency consumers increasingly demand.
Bruce Rastetter of Summit Ag, which expects to break ground on its second corn ethanol plant in Brazil this month, says key infrastructure projects could also loosen the country’s transportation bottlenecks.
The farmland REIT’s latest acquisition marks an expansion into a new region of Florida, a state second only to California within its $560m property portfolio.
CoBank senior economist Ben Laine says wages could increase to the point where it becomes cheaper for the US to import commodities rather than the labor needed to produce them domestically.
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