Permanent Crops

Gladstone continues to invest in almond production, this time buying properties with well-developed trees already on-site.

The firm, previously known as UBS AgriVest, now has assets under management of $1.2 billion but still believes row commodity crop farmland is too expensive.

The Chilean firm is launching its second agri-food fund and its first is 60 percent invested.

US pistachio production fell in the last year as did demand in China, but Australia, the US and China stepped up almond and walnut production as Japanese, Chinese and European demand rose.

Blue Road Capital's John Duryea talks first-time fundraising, and why LPs are turning to agribusinesses for co-investment opportunities.

The Barcelona firm has bought a 25% equity share in the company, to be bolstered by co-investments from European institutional investors.

David Gladstone explains why lower prices won’t push his REIT toward greater commodity crop exposure and why growers don’t need to own the land they farm.

The NZ$30bn fund's timber and agriculture portfolio manager Neil Woods is looking to commit an additional NZ$700m, and is initially targeting permanent crops.

Bidwells consultant Ian Monks says high quality land should hold its value, but less high quality farmland might become cheaper and more available.

The RDIF plans to make $4bn in co-investments to agriculture aby 2018, and will focus on businesses with local and export markets, its chief executive officer Kirill Dmitriev said earlier this week.