The North Carolina-based agtech company raised $34.5m to launch its first biological fungicide product, Howler.
The REIT sold an additional 360,000 shares on top of an offering in July.
Integrated Ag will invest in distressed and underutilised farm properties and underlying farm businesses in states like Arizona and Nevada.
Stafford Capital Partners, which invests in timberland through funds of
funds, has added global agriculture to its investment strategies, saying it intends to replicate its successful timberland model.
The new hire, Thor Talseth, is a seafood specialist who joined this month from Neptune Partners.
Cargill is set to acquire EWOS, a supplier of feed and nutrition for the international aquaculture industry, from Altor Fund III and Bain Capital Europe III.
More players in the pool is driving the completion rate, valuations and more companies into the market, according to the Nutrition Capital Network.
Having just recently bought Iglo from Permira for €2.6bn, Nomad's continuing to expand its European frozen food holdings.
As losses are predicted to hit $2.7bn for California agri this year, investors see alarming patterns in this long-term drought.
The REIT will acquire row crop farmland in the US' Pacific Northwest region.