Crops

Meneba Beheer, a Dutch flour business and former portfolio company of CVC and Bencis, has been charged by the Dutch regulator for price fixing. Both private equity firms face fines as a result.

The real estate investment trust has won a 331-acre strawberry farm in Salinas, California, at auction.

Freight Farms, which makes mobile crop production facilities, raised the funding in a round led by venture capital firm Spark Capital.

The Illinois State Board of Investment is terminating its only investment mandate in the asset class with no plans to make new agri-related investments.

The management consultancy firm has sent a submission to the government’s Agricultural Competitiveness Taskforce in the wake of its crop insurance symposium earlier this month.

Average food prices have declined over the past four years, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation. But how long will it last? Duxton’s Desmond Sheehy argues the case for food price hikes.

The Australian agriculture manager is targeting institutional investors for its diversified fund offering.

Land prices across the US Corn Belt could fall by as much as 10% a year for three years, but this does not reflect badly on the investment opportunity, argue managers and consultants.

The social impact investor invested $2m in debt into Tropha Estates while African Agricultural Capital Fund and Jacoma Estates, Tropha's sponsor, invested $2m in equity each.

The US farmland REIT has increased its dividend and is not fazed by the recent downturn in farmland prices across the Corn Belt.