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The acquisition of Tassal by Cooke Inc means Australia’s two largest salmon producers are now in private hands, following JBS’s purchase of Huon Aquaculture in 2021.

The firm joins a growing list of LPs and GPs taking steps to measure and improve the biodiversity of their natural capital assets.

The listed property fund manager moved to acquire goFARM and the management rights to its Vitalharvest Freehold Trust because it was attracted to the fundamentals of agriculture.

Justice Hammerschlag found that Bonitas Research and CEO Matthew Weichert had disseminated information that was ‘false in material particulars’ and ‘materially misleading’.

The listed asset manager, which has been under fire from short-sellers in recent months, has sold the assets in NSW and Victoria because they are ‘better suited to business with greater economies of scale’ like ProTen.

Embattled listed fund manager, which generates income by leasing farmland, published a farm-by-farm breakdown of property values as it tried to reassure investors in the face of a short-selling attack.

Rural Funds Management and Bucephalus Research Partnership issued fresh rebuttals to each other this week, with RFM describing the analyst’s research as ‘false and misleading.’

The ASX-listed REIT says it is ‘easy to make things up’ in response to research from Hong Kong-based Bucephalus Research Partnership, which echoes recent allegations made by Bonitas Research.

With high-profile ag investment management firms like Blue Sky Alternative Investments and Rural Funds Group attacked by American short-sellers in recent months, to varying degrees of success, what is making these firms an attractive target?

MD David Bryant tells Agri Investor that a new report by EY confirms that allegations made by Bonitas Research were ‘completely without foundation’.