Marcello Tumedei, chief executive officer with Suba, said the partnership will merge Gallatin’s “innovative research and development initiatives in peas and beans with Suba’s European large seed vegetable production platform.
Nasdaq Private Market has launched a platform to let HNWIs trade stakes in private equity feeder funds.
The PE community has been closely monitoring major consolidation among large agri groups, including additional pending mergers between DuPont and Dow Chemical, and ChemChina and Syngenta.
Russia’s sovereign wealth fund has partnered for the first time with the Israeli investment firm to invest up to $100m in Russia’s dairy farming and milk processing sectors.
The pension’s $580m agriculture portfolio has produced 17.8% returns over the past five years with a strategy favoring almonds, pistachios and other permanent crops.
David Widmar, agricultural economist at Purdue University, told Agri Investor that the difficulties US farmers will face in the upcoming 2017 season are likely setting in.
Under AMERRA’s management, Norway-based Biomega will collaborate with Alkymar, another Norwegian company, to produce high-grade proteins from raw salmon byproducts.
The deal values the UK-based functional snacks and supplement company at $87.5 million and suggests a future focus on branding efforts.
The Accelerating Inclusive Markets for Smallholders project aims to help Cambodian farmers improve yields and strengthen connections with local markets and investors.
Epicrop science adds epigenetic information directly to seeds of commercial varieties without adding genetic material, which could potentially change consumer perceptions.