Private Equity

The bill will make $75 million of “affordable and flexible growth capital” available to Ohio’s agriculture-focused and rural small businesses.

Stafford Capital Partners closed its $484m timberland fund of funds at the end of May. Partner Thomas Goodrich talks about the maturation of timberland as an asset class and why inefficiences in the sector make secondaries a good opportunity.

Arlon Group acquired The Coastal Companies, a distributor and processor of fresh produce and dairy products in the mid-Atlantic region of the US with its $335m North America fund.

This is Compass Diversified's third acquisition in the past 11 months and the first acquisition made in agribusiness.

Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, has €6 billion to allocate and is looking for opportunities in food and agriculture, according to Cathal Fitzgerald, head of food and agriculture investments at ISIF.

The USDA and Farm Credit System-backed PE fund has invested $5m into Hortau, a California-based precision irrigation company.

The African development investment firm is investing $1.8m into the scheme through its Silverlands Fund.

The UK's Aberdeen Asset Management has agreed to buy FLAG Capital Management in a deal that will double the assets managed by its private equity unit.

Consumer-focused private equity firm sells minority interest in organic meat company.

As more and more high profile names invest into agtech, questions have been raised about whether the sector is overheating.