farmland

Khadim Abdulla Al Darei, Al Dahra’s co-founder and vice-chairman, says the investment will allow the multinational agribusiness to expand its 'reach and footprint.'

NCREIF’s Q1 results showed US farmland delivered a negative return for the first time in almost 20 years, but the coronavirus played a very small part in it.

Australia’s largest general insurer takes a stake of an unknown size in CSIRO-backed DAS, in a deal worth ‘millions of dollars’.

The A$53bn industry fund says it may have to invest over shorter time horizons if the early withdrawal scheme is extended, despite a desire to extend its ag portfolio.

The University of Illinois professor says growing global production and uncertainties surrounding trade and income helped produce the first negative quarterly cumulative farmland return recorded by NCREIF in 19 years.

The AgIS Farmland Club Fund will target gross IRR of 8-12% though up to 10 investments focused on permanent crops.

PSP’s first investment in Australia’s cattle sector was its stake in HCA, which is disposing the Mt Cooper aggregation to focus on organic production.

The Leading Harvest initiative was driven by a working group that included Nuveen/Westchester, Hancock Natural Resources Group and Cottonwood Ag Management, among others.

The coronavirus-induced recession has prompted concerns the country could emulate New Zealand’s restrictive and lengthy approvals process in the long term.

Homestead Capital Farmland Fund III had raised just over $400m by the end of 2019 and has a $600m target – the buy-and-lease strategy is expected to reach final close in June 2020.