Crops

The long-term future of Britain's farmland values remains uncertain, with analysts divided on whether the market will be hit by subsidy cuts or stay flat.

The company will use funding led by Monsanto Growth Ventures to develop products that combine drones, data analytics and genomics to improve crop yields.

Wilfred Morren, founder of land investment brokerage firm Farmland Uruguay, outlines how forestry and farmland certification was achieved on a mixed cattle, forestry and cropping investment in Uruguay.

Experienced row-crop farm manager Springer has been appointed regional director of acquisitions at the firm, which was formed by the merger of Halderman and US Agriculture last year.

The RDIF plans to make $4bn in co-investments to agriculture aby 2018, and will focus on businesses with local and export markets, its chief executive officer Kirill Dmitriev said earlier this week.

Howard Halderman, whose institutional clients include the New Mexico Education Retirement Board, argues that lower prices make now a good time to invest in the US farmland space.

Experts on the country's economy say its growing agri sector is limited by poor infrastructure, with transportation a particular issue.

The global market for grains and oilseeds has contracted in value by about 15 percent, thanks to price declines, even as trade volume has grown by about 150 million tonnes

The Chinese government is seeking private investment in irrigation projects for the country’s agriculture sector in order to shore up food security.