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Managing partner Jeffrey Howard says Front Range Biosciences is among the companies benefiting from a surge in private investor interest in cannabis.

Integrated NSW beef and cropping enterprise will be subject to an EOI campaign in October, allowing foreign capital to make a bid.

The latest NCREIF Australian Farmland Index, which splits annual and permanent cropland for the first time, shows ag returns Down Under continuing to outperform the US.

The NASDAQ-listed farmland REIT says it hopes the $7m deal will be the first of many in a region well-suited to benefit from growing demand for healthy produce.

Hassad will invest in one of MIRA’s ag portfolios as part of the deal in a shift in strategy for the Qatar-backed group.

The national crop is forecast to be 9% below the 20-year average despite a strong showing from Western Australia.

The farmland REIT’s latest acquisition marks an expansion into a new region of Florida, a state second only to California within its $560m property portfolio.

As it strives to become a more diversified logistics provider, 114-year-old Maersk hopes to learn from entrepreneurs by becoming a 'credible' investor, says Maersk Growth venture partner Peter Votkjaer Jorgensen.

After closing a $300m debut fund last summer, the acquisition of Universal Irrigation marks the third such deal for the West Coast midstream specialists.

A raft of measures will come into effect following the new agreement, with livestock, citrus and dairy exporters set to benefit.