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The vehicle will seek low-teen returns through investments in farmland and processing assets devoted to sustainable production of tree nuts, citrus and blueberries.

The agriculture IoT start-up has raised fresh funds from Tencent and Syngenta Ventures, an existing investor.

The Australia-focused investment and farm management company’s decision to sell brings one of the country’s largest irrigated properties to market.

US corn acreage remains concentrated in the Midwest, but its use as input for food and fuel has widened its appeal among states. Our interactive maps take stock of maize democratization since the start of the millennium.

The sovereign wealth fund, along with Flagship Pioneering and two new investors, have allowed Indigo to close on an extra $156m in fresh capital.

The US's largest farmland REIT will draw from the $144m it collected in August to buy the assets from a Temasek-owned agribusiness.

The two firms have teamed up with Viking Global to create a company that will focus on nitrogen fixation, a process that enables plants to fulfill their nutrient needs without fertilizer.

The head of external management at AP Fonden 2, which committed $750m to a TIAA fund in 2014, tells Agri Investor why the Swedish pension favors core farmland investments.

By making agriculture ventures more productive, the rise of autonomous mobility promises to open up the market in counter-intuitive ways.

One of Australia’s largest irrigated and dryland cropping operations has attracted interest from domestic and international investors.