livestock

The fund manager has sold Banongill Station, the first property it acquired for the fund in 2016, to a local farming consortium.

Eric Archambeau says some of Europe’s leading agtech startups may prove more scaleable than their American counterparts.

University of California Davis animal health professor Frank Mitloehner is working with the pair to improve cattle welfare and minimize the beef carbon footprint at Green Plains Cattle Company.

The food-focused subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s $300bn Public Investment Fund increased its 20% stake in Minerva Foods it purchased in 2016 to 33.8%.

Gunn Agri Partners revealed that the Gunn Agri Cattle Fund, which is now fully deployed, reported EBITDA of A$19.7m for the year ending June 2020.

AGP and four other investors have committed A$13m to the livestock feed additive start-up that has been shown to reduce methane emissions from beef and dairy production by up to 80%.

Managing director Chuck Templeton says two new seafood-experienced managing directors will help build a network of co-investors interested in early stage seafood and ocean ecosystem health opportunities.

Australian farmland's annualized income return of 9.26% outperformed a capital return of 5.21% to help prop up total annualized income, reinforcing the asset's resiliency credentials.

Income returns strengthened significantly despite the fall in capital returns, due to strong export demand for Australian products.

MIRA’s head of agriculture talks to Agri Investor about sustainable farming in the wake of covid-19, and provides an update on fund deployment and plans for a fourth fund.