Institutional Investors

Integrated Ag will invest in distressed and underutilised farm properties and underlying farm businesses in states like Arizona and Nevada.

Agribusiness attracted approximately 11 percent of the total investment, the majority in dairy and milk processing.

Stafford Capital Partners, which invests in timberland through funds of funds, has added global agriculture to its investment strategies, saying it intends to replicate its successful timberland model.

More players in the pool is driving the completion rate, valuations and more companies into the market, according to the Nutrition Capital Network.

The REIT will acquire row crop farmland in the US' Pacific Northwest region.

As risks increase across a variety of sectors, lower-risk agri will become an increasingly important part of the portfolio of institutional investors, according to a paper released by an Australian think tank.

PGGM, which is invested in both Black River food funds, allocates approximately €12bn to private equity.

The property comprises 1067 hectares of mature almond groves that are owned by Macquarie Farm Assets and Resources Management.

The purchase from Flight Group was part of a larger deal which also saw Timberlink, an investee company of New Forests, bought sawmilling assets from Flight Timbers.

The pension giant's second agri fund has exceeded its $2.5bn target.