Field Notes: Australia farmland returns fall below zero; Acre Venture closes $140m fund; buy-and-lease goes open-end

Returns for Australia farmland fall below zero, according to ANREV; Acre Venture Partners closes its $140m Fund III; farmland buy-and-lease strategies go open-end; Olam opens bidding war for Namoi cotton with Louis Dreyfus; and more. Welcome to Field Notes, the start-of-the-week briefing for our valued subscribers only.