A free trade agreement has been agreed between Australia and China. It will reduce tariffs on lamb, beef, horticulture and dairy products.
Online farming platform trecker.com received funding from German venture capital firm Target Partners.
The Dutch animal feed producer rejected last week’s joint bid by private equity house Permira and global agribusiness Cargill. Dutch investment firm SHV is left in the running.
Tianjin State Farms Agribusiness Group has committed to investing €100m into an agri business park in the eastern European country.
The UK based investment manager has secured £1 million in hard commitments for its blueberry investment vehicle Vaccinium. The firm has pared back its target amount to £3m, down from £4m.
The US venture capital firm has invested into Farmers Edge from the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ Green Growth Fund.
The German alternative fund house is set to close on around $200m.
A lively LP panel at the Agri Investor Forum in Chicago last week presented some useful pointers for managers on fees, pitches and more.
Management expertise is the most important characteristic in real assets investing as plans to invest in timber and farmland grow, according to US institutions surveyed by Greenwich Associates and Cohen & Stears.
The CEE region development financier approved a $25m loan for a Moldovan grain commodities trader and sunflower oil producer.