Chris Janiec
Managing director Greg Richards tells Agri Investor that potential expansion of Fresh Innovations California could focus on the apple-growing regions of Michigan and New York.
Paolo Bazan of IDB Invest tells Agri Investor that foreign insurance companies and pension funds are increasingly willing to provide long-term financing to export-focused agribusinesses in Latin America.
Matthew Jansen, who had the same position with China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation’s international grain business, has reportedly joined Saudi Arabia’s state-backed ag investment unit as chief executive.
EBRD principal banker Nazli Arikan tells Agri Investor that the $48m in credit, offered alongside other DFIs and private lenders, will help Tiryaki Agro reorient its strategy to focus more on organic exports.
Managing director Barry Bogseth tells Agri Investor that pension funds, insurance companies and private equity funds are widening the scope of their farmland interest as pressure on producers continues.
As the company's biological input products move closer to commercialization, BioConsortia chief executive Marcus Meadows-Smith tells Agri Investor that recent years have demonstrated the need for agricultural know-how among ag-tech investors.
James Adamson, head of forestry investment at London-headquartered real estate services provider Savills, tells Agri Investor of how the UK‘s timberland industry has matured along with forests planted in the 1970s and 1980s.
Doug Hensley, president of real estate services at Iowa land broker Hertz Real Estate Services, tells Agri Investor that Midwestern lenders are increasingly encouraging farmers with existing debt to explore sale options to financial buyers.
FoodLogiQ – which counts Whole Foods, Subway and Chipotle among its existing customers – says demand for its software is supported by continued implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act.
In the second part of our interview with Proterra managing director Rich Gammill, we learn what convinced the firm to exit its China-focused dairy business to a joint-venture partner.