Chris Janiec
Co-founder Neil Renninger tells Agri Investor of a surge of investor interest in food-tech that has seen lines between private equity and venture capital blur.
Chief executive Erik Heim tells Agri Investor that the company's move into the US comes amid growing investor appetite for onshore aquaculture after a doubling of costs for sea-borne fish farms.
Intrexon's Jack Bobo believes educating the public about the growing role of science in agriculture is crucial to meeting the food challenges of the decades to come.
IFC executives tells Agri Investor that the deal continues a years-long effort to stoke investor sentiment about the Latin American ag powerhouse that is starting to bear fruit.
Despite uncertainties surrounding policy and the threat of economic strife, China remains a more attractive dairy export market than India, Tom Vilsack said at the Peoples Company’s Land Investment Expo.
Founder Jim Schultz tells Agri Investor that the $100m vehicle’s focus on upstream investments comes after his determination that agtech has become 'a little bit over-invested'.
Shortly after acquiring a 6000-acre farm in Washington state, founder Craig Wichner says the case for listing Farmland LP’s second vehicle, for which it is seeking $150m, may become prevalent in the future.
The amount disbursed is at a near-record but the number of farmers benefiting from it is going down, said Farmer Mac’s Jackson Takach.
The deal is the firm's second in the Latin American country following its 2014 acquisition of a 62,000-hectare plantation with a local company.
CPPIB’s exit from its US farmland holdings, and the possibility that the buyer was connected to Bill Gates, could signal a change of tack among makers of the farmland market; but it also highlights a need for greater transparency.