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UB Nordic Forest Management, the forestry management arm of the investment bank, is close to fully deploying Fund I with its latest acquisition.

The Church Commissioners for England has acquired a £49m UK forestry portfolio. This takes its timber allocation above target.

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

The state's education sector trust will issue an RFP for alternative ownership in the second half of next year after a $3m loss on the forestland in 2013.

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.

Resource Management Services, the US-based institutional fund manager, will raise the capital across two funds; one targeting international markets and another targeting the US forestry market.

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.

The Canadian buy-and-lease farmland fund manager has increased Fund V’s target by C$15 million.

The investment bank will promote investment and joint ventures with overseas investors and strategic partners with the aim of expanding Uzbekistan's poultry sector.

Allflex Group, a livestock tracking and identification company, will acquire SCR, an Israeli firm, for $250m. Allflex is BC Partners’ only agri investment currently.